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In fulfilling its mandate of promoting development in Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean, the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI), has appointed Avinash Persaud, Professor Emeritus of Gresham College, London and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy, Cambridge University, as a CaPRI Senior Fellow. Persaud who is the current chairman of Intelligence Capital Limited, a financial advisory boutique headquartered in London, will also head the CaPRI Barbados office which will be officially opened in 2010.
“The appointment of Professor Persaud is a real coup for the Institute. His hands on, in the field experience and theoretic expertise, along with his desire for Caribbean development makes him a perfect fit for CaPRI”, said CaPRI President, Dr. John Rapley.
As Rapley indicates, Persaud who for 10 years was ranked in the top three (3) of currency analysts in global investor survey, and whose CV boast numerous academic and accomplishments, represents the ideal mix of the practical and the theoretic, as Jamaica and the region seeks workable and sustainable development policies.
As CaPRI’s track record of research, publications, seminars and public education campaigns via both electronic and print media and public forums have shown, assisting policy makers as they seek to pave a path of economic development for Jamaica and the region is our primary objective. To this end CaPRI, the first public policy think tank of its kind in the Caribbean, has always sought to engage the best minds and expertise in our research, as we offer a forum for evidence-based dialogue between government and civil society: evidence-based dialogue geared toward opening up the policy decision and policy making process to the citizenry.
Incidentally, Persaud who is also a Member of the UN Commission of Experts on International Financial Reform, and co-Chair of the OECD Emerging Market Network won the Jacques de Larosiere Award in Global Finance in 2000.
CaPRI welcomes Persaud, Governor and former Member of Council of the London School of Economics and Member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society to its team, as it seeks to continue enabling the change towards more public involvement in policy choices and implementation.