John Williamson is an economist and the originator of the Washington Consensus. He is a critic of capital liberalization and bipolar exchange rate.

Williamson has been a Senior fellow at Institute for International Economics since 1981. He was the project director for the UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development (the Zedillo Report) in 2001. He was also on leave as Chief Economist for South Asia at the World Bank during 1996-99. He was an adviser to the International Monetary Fund from 1972 to 1974 and Economic Consultant to the UK Treasury from 1968 to 1970.

He's been an Economics professor at Pontifica Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1978-81), University of Warwick (1970-77), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1967, 1980), University of York (1963-68) and Princeton University (1962-63).

He is the author or editor of numerous studies on international monetary and developing-world debt issues:

• Delivering on Debt Relief: From IMF Gold to a New Aid Architecture (2002)
• Exchange Rate Regimes for Emerging Markets: Reviving the Intermediate Option (2000)
• The Crawling Band as an Exchange Rate Regime (1996)
• What Role for Currency Boards? (1995)
• Estimating Equilibrium Exchange Rates (1994)
• The Political Economy of Policy Reform (1993)
• Economic Consequences of Soviet Disintegration (1993)
• Trade and Payments After Soviet Disintegration (1992)
• From Soviet Disunion to Eastern Economic Community? with Oleh Havrylyshyn (1991)
• Currency Convertibility in Eastern Europe (1991)
• Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened? (1990)
• Targets and Indicators: A Blueprint for the International Coordination of Economic Policy with Marcus Miller (1987)

External links

• The Zedillo report (UN) (http://www.un.org/reports/financing/)