DeLisle Worrell - Brief CV
DeLisle Worrell is Director of the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance, and Professor
of Economics at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. He is a
former senior economist with the International Monetary Fund, and former Deputy Governor
of the Central Bank of Barbados. He is the author of Small Island Economies: Structure and
Performance in the English Speaking Caribbean since 1970 (New York: Praeger Publishers,
1987), and of books on Caribbean and South Pacific economies. He has also published
articles on money, banking, exchange rates, economic modelling and forecasting, in books
and journals in the U.S., U.K., Mexico and the Caribbean. He has held research fellowships
at the Smithsonian Institution, the Institute for International Economics and the Federal
Reserve Board in Washington, at Yale University, Princeton University and the University of
the West Indies. He has been consultant to the Interamerican Development Bank, the
Foundation for Development Cooperation in Brisbane, Australia, the U.S. Agency for
International Development, the World Bank, the UN Economic and Social Council and the
Caribbean Community Secretariat. He was general chairperson of the International
Symposium on Forecasting 1997, and a member of the programme committee of the
International Economic Association Moscow congress of 1992. Dr. Worrell is a graduate of
the University of the West Indies (B. Sc. Economics, 1967) and of McGill University,
Montreal, Canada (Ph. D., 1975).
Dr. Worrell is married to Monica Drayton of Barbados. His enthusiasms, apart from
economics, include photography, swimming and Caribbean festival arts.
July 2008
Contact Information
DeLisle Worrell
Executive Director
CCMF
UWI St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
Tel: 868 662 1701
Fax: 868 645 6017
E-mail: Delisle.Worrell@sta.uwi.edu
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