Sunil Sharma

Education

M.A. from Delhi School of Economics; M.A. from Cornell University; Ph.D. from Cornell University

Expertise

International Economics, International Finance, Global Economic Governance

Background

Sunil Sharma is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute for International Economic Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, USA. He has been the Senior Associate of the Council on Economic Policies, Switzerland, since 2020. He was Assistant Director in the IMF’s Research Department from 2015-2018, and the Director of the IMF-Singapore Regional Training Institute (STI) in Singapore from 2006-2015. Before moving to Singapore in 2006, Sunil was Chief of the IMF Institute’s Asian Division in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the IMF in 1992, he was on the Economics faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was on the Board of Directors, Mysore Royal Academy (MYRA) School of Business, Mysore, India. During 2012-2018, he was a member of the Advisory Board, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics (SKBI), Singapore Management University, Singapore, and over 2011-2015, he served on the International Advisory Board, Institute of Global Finance, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Sunil has a Ph.D. and a M.A. in Economics from Cornell University, a M.A. from the Delhi School of Economics, and a B.A. (Honors) from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University. He has published widely on economic and financial topics, and his current interests include the international financial architecture, the institutional structure and design of financial regulation, and the role of finance and financial policies in economic growth.

Featured Work

“Institutions, International Financial Integration, and Output Growth,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, March 2024

Governance for Systemic and Transformational Change: Redesigning Governance for the Anthropocene, UNDP; March 2023 (with Ann Florini and Gordon LaForge)

“A New Political Order Emerges,” Finance & Development, Analytical Series, March 2023

“On the Implemention of Macroprudential Policy,” with Itai Agur, The European Money and Finance Forum (SUERF), Policy Brief, No. 362, June 2022

“Structural Reforms Required to Safeguard Democratic Future,” with William White, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, April 21, 2022

“Reckoning with Systemic Hazards,” with Ann Florini, Finance & Development, Vol 57, Number 2 (June), 2020