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Executive Vice President and Chief Economist,S&P Global
Paul Sheard is Executive Vice President and Chief Economist of S&P Global. He spearheads the company’s economic and market thought-leadership and engages with a broad range of market participants and external stakeholders. Teams led by Dr. Sheard provide the macroeconomic forecasts and macro-credit views used by S&P Global’s analysts during the ratings process, conduct fixed income research, and foster cross-divisional research collaboration. Dr. Sheard chairs S&P Global’s Academic Council and is also a member of S&P Global Ratings’ Executive Committee. Previously, Dr. Sheard held similar chief economist positions at Nomura Securities in New York and at Lehman Brothers in New York and Tokyo. Dr. Sheard speaks regularly at major conferences around the world and his views are frequently quoted in the international media. He was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the International Monetary System in 2010-12 and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. Earlier in his career, he was on the faculty at the Australian National University (ANU) and at Osaka University, and was a visiting researcher at Stanford University and at the Bank of Japan. Author or editor of several books and numerous articles on the Japanese economy, Dr. Sheard won the Suntory-Gakugei Prize in the Economics–Politics Division for his book, The Crisis of Main Bank Capitalism. Dr. Sheard received his bachelor’s degree from Monash University in Australia, and a master’s degree in Economics and a Ph.D. from the ANU.