Jack Boorman, Ph.D.

Retired IMF Counselor and Special Advisor to the Managing Director

Jack Boorman was for more than eleven years the Director of the Policy Development and Review Department of the International Monetary Fund. In the latter years of his career with the Fund, he was Counselor, the most Senior staff position in the IMF, and Special Advisor to the Managing Director. He held several other positions in the Fund, including in the European and Asian Departments, and as Resident Representative in Indonesia. Before his career in the IMF, Mr. Boorman taught at the University of Southern California, from which he received his Ph.D. in Economics, and at the University of Maryland. He also served as a Financial Economist in the Research Department of The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Mr. Boorman is the author of a number of books and many papers on diverse topics including development, structural adjustment, and developing country debt; emerging market country issues; international insolvency; governance; and IMF policies and country operations.

Mr. Boorman currently serves as Advisor to the Director of the IMF Independent Evaluation Office, as a member of the Advisory Board of the Emerging Markets Forum, as the Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees of LeMoyne College, and continues to write and speak on global governance, domestic and international economic policy issues, emerging markets, and other topics.  Most recently, he served as a member of the Palais Royal Group, a group of eminent persons from around the world that produced a report recommending specific reforms to the international monetary system.  He also edited a book on the background material produced for that initiative.  In recent months, Mr. Boorman has been working on the development of a “Resilience Index” to measure the capacity of countries to react to shocks.

Mr. Boorman and his wife Helen live in Sanibel, Florida from November through April and in Rehoboth, Delaware during the summer.  They also spend significant time in Washington D.C.