Paul Sheard

Paul Sheard, an Australian-American economist, is the former Vice Chairman of S&P Global and a former Senior Fellow and Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. He held chief economist positions at S&P Global, Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, Nomura Securities, and Lehman Brothers. He taught at the Australian National University, Osaka University, and Stanford University, and was a Foreign Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Japan. Sheard has been a member of several World Economic Forum expert councils and was appointed by two prime ministers to serve on advisory committees of the Japanese Government. He was a non-executive director of ORIX Corporation, and he is a member of the board of advisors of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and sits on the board of the Foreign Policy Association. He is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of New York. Sheard’s book in Japanese, The Crisis of Main Bank Capitalism, won the Suntory-Gakugei Prize in the Economics–Politics Division. Sheard has a PhD and a Master of Economics from the ANU. In 2019, his alma mater, Monash University, conferred on him an honorary Doctor of Laws. He lives with his wife on Manhattan's Upper West Side.