Senior Economist
CurrentResponsibility for the firm’s coverage of emerging markets (EMs) (2001-12)Wrote a monthly general overview of these economies throughout this periodWorked extensively on consultancy projects (2001-06) related to the EMs, such as assessing China’s future commodity demands, regional growth in India and forecasting oil demand in the EMsDesigned and wrote a weekly publication on the EMs (2006-12), looking at key developments in the main regions (Asia, Latin America and Emerging Europe) as well as general issuesContributed forecasts for the OE Global Economic Model (since 2001), and wrote country reports (since 2001), on many of the major EMs at various times (such as Brazil, India, Korea, Turkey and South Africa) and on several developed economies (Japan and Australia)Main forecaster of smaller economies for OE; extensive knowledge on data and information sources for these economies (since 2003)Editor of OE’s Country Economic Forecast service (now covering 200 economies) since its launch in 2006Advising younger economists with their country forecasts and reports and other research (since 2012)Designed a vulnerability ‘scorecard’ for EMs and written regular updates on developments in this indicator (since 2014)
