Prior to this appointment Suman K Bery was at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., USA as the Lead Economist for Brazil. His experience on Latin America at the World Bank included work on Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru.Other assignments at the World Bank have included Division Chief for National Economic Management at the former Economic Development Institute (now the World Bank Institute); Secretary to the Bank’s Research Committee; and country work on Iran, Yugoslavia, Tanzania and Jamaica. Between 1992 and 1994 Bery held the position of Special Consultant to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, based in Bombay. While at the RBI, he was actively involved in developing proposals for reform of the government debt markets; linkages between general financial sector deregulation and the development of the bond market, as well as issues of market structure, drawing upon the experience of other developing countries.
Education After schooling in India and the UK, Bery graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford with a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE). His graduate work was at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, from which he holds the degree of Master of Public and International Affairs. His PhD dissertation research (also at Princeton) was on the monetary policy instruments of the Reserve Bank of India.
Publications Bery’s publications include papers on Indian financial sector reform; reform of public sector banks; banking crises in Latin America; and the political economy of economic reform in developing countries.
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Lead Economist for Brazil. His experience on Latin America at the World Bank included work on Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru.Other assignments at the World Bank have included Division Chief for National Economic Management at the former Economic Development Institute (now the World Bank Institute); Secretary to the Bank’s Research Committee; and country work on Iran, Yugoslavia, Tanzania and Jamaica. Between 1992 and 1994 Bery held the position of Special Consultant to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, based in Bombay. While at the RBI, he was actively involved in developing proposals for reform of the government debt markets; linkages between general financial sector deregulation and the development of the bond market, as well as issues of market structure, drawing upon the experience of other developing countries.