Paul Sheard

Paul Sheard is Research Fellow in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, he was Vice Chairman of S&P Global, after being Executive Vice President and Chief Economist. Earlier, he held chief economist positions at Standard & Poor’s, Nomura Securities, and Lehman Brothers. Sheard was on the faculty of the Australian National University (ANU) and Osaka University, and was a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University and foreign visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan. Sheard is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Agenda for Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and he twice served on committees of the Japanese Government’s Economic Deliberation Council. Sheard is on the board of the Foreign Policy Association and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and the Economic Club of New York. Sheard received a PhD in Japanese Economy and Master of Economics from the ANU. In 2019, his undergraduate alma mater, Monash University, conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws on Sheard.