Avinash Persaud

Who is Avinash Persaud?

Avinash D. Persaud is Chairman of Intelligence Capital Ltd, a company specializing in analyzing, managing and creating financial liquidity in investment projects and portfolios. He is also the non-Executive Chairman of the London-based Elara Capital, a leading investment bank. Professor Persaud is a Senior Fellow with the Caribbean Policy Research Institute and Head of its Barbados office.

Previously he was managing director and Global Head of Research at State Street Bank, the world's largest institutional investor, and Global Head of Currency and Commodity Research at J.P. Morgan & Co.. He was ranked within the top 3 of currency analysts in major international investor surveys, between 1992 and 1999. In December 2009, he was listed by a high level Panel set up by Prospect Magazine, second of 25 world brains who have been the best contributors in the public conversation on the financial crisis.

Prof Persaud is Co-Chair of the OECD Emerging Market Network. He was a Director of the Global Association of Risk Professionals. In 2008 he was appointed member of a French Presidential Commission on the global credit crunch. He was the economic expert on the UK Government's Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information, In 2001 he was made a Distinguished Visitor of the Republic of Singapore. He was appointed a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund working on risk appetite measures and at the European Central Bank working on issues of liquidity and transparency in European financial markets. He is frequently a guest speaker at G20 central banks and meetings of officials.