Assistant Governor (Financial System) Brad Jones
Dr Brad Jones is Assistant Governor (Financial System) at the Reserve Bank of Australia and Deputy Chair of the Payments System Board. He oversees the RBA’s policy work in financial stability, geopolitical risk and the future of money.
Brad is a member of the Council of Financial Regulators, the Financial Stability Board (Standing Committee on the Assessment of Vulnerabilities), the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, and Chair of the RBA’s Financial Market Infrastructure Committee. He is also a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Global Finance.
Brad joined the RBA in 2018, serving as Head of International Department and then as Head of Economic Analysis Department. In the fifteen years prior to joining the RBA, he served as a senior financial sector advisor at the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C., held global macro research and principal investment responsibilities at Deutsche Bank in London and Hong Kong, and was a Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
| Education |
Macquarie University (PhD, International Finance) Harvard University (ALM, International Relations) |
|---|---|
| 2003–12 | Deutsche Bank (London and Hong Kong) – various roles in Principal Investments and Global Markets Research |
| 2013–18 | International Monetary Fund (Washington D.C.) – Monetary and Capital Markets Department |
| 2016–18 | University of California (Santa Cruz), Department of Economics (Centre for Analytical Finance) – Research Affiliate |
| 2016–21 | University of Cambridge Judge Business School – Fellow |
| 2018–20 | Head of International Department |
| 2020-22 | Head of Economic Analysis Department |