Philip Wooldridge

Philip Wooldridge heads a team of 10 economists and analysts in Hong Kong SAR conducting research on policy issues of interest to central banks in Asia and the Pacific. From 2020 to 2023, he was Head of the Secretariat for the Committee on the Global Financial System. From 2019 to 2020, he represented the BIS at G20 meetings of senior finance and central bank officials and was also Head of Financial Markets responsible for the publication of the BIS Quarterly Review. From 2012 to 2018, Philip was Deputy Head of Statistics and Research Support responsible for the compilation of the BIS banking, derivatives and securities statistics. Philip joined the BIS in 1999 and started his career at the Bank of Canada in 1995. He received his MA in Economics from the University of Toronto and BA from the University of British Columbia. He is a CFA charter holder.

• Financial and banking statistics
• Financial markets
• International finance