Mr. Sherwyn Williams worked as an economist at the IMF for over two decades. He has extensive experience working in the Middle East region, as well as in Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, and the Former Soviet Union (FSU). His areas of expertise include macro-monetary policy, debt sustainability and reserve adequacy, exchange rate and external competitiveness, poverty reduction, and balance of payments statistics.
Sherwyn Williams contributed significantly to analytical work in all aspects of the IMF’s financial policies, resulting in many papers discussed at the Executive Board on financial risk to the Fund’s operations, quota distribution, and policy on access to the Fund’s resources. He was deeply involved in the conceptual work on economic statistics in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries. He also worked as a lecturer in balance of payments statistics and financial programming at the IMF Institute. Prior to joining the IMF, he worked as an economist and division chief of the Research Department of the Bank of Guyana.
During 2015-2016 Sherwyn served as Executive Director on the Board of the Inter-American Development Bank, representing the governments of The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Sherwyn has a bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Economics from the University Of Birmingham (UK), and a PhD in Economics from Binghamton University (SUNY).