Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones

Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones is a Professor in Practice for Financing Sustainable Development at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance. 

She is also Emeritus Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University. She recently completed her tenure as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Chile, a post she held from January 2024 to December 2025. She was first appointed to the board of the Chilean Central Bank in 2022 and was only the third woman to do so in the Bank’s nearly one-hundred-year history. 

She previously served as Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University and was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. She has held the position of deputy director of International Finance at the Commonwealth Secretariat and has worked at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and in the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. 

She started her career in Chile, first in Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (Chile’s development bank), then in the Central Bank of Chile. She has published over 25 books and written many scholarly and journalistic articles. Stephany holds a B.A. in Economics from Universidad de Chile and a PhD in Economics from Cambridge University.