Bradley Jones has been promoted the Reserve Bank’s economic analysis department after previous stints with the IMF and Deutsche Bank overseas.
Bradley Jones has been promoted to assistant governor of Reserve Bank of Australia, moving from the central bank’s economic analysis department to overseeing its financial system group.
Dr Jones joined the RBA in 2018 after a five-year stint at the International Monetary Fund’s monetary and capital markets department in Washington and prior to that working for Deutsche Bank in London and Hong Kong. In his new position, Dr Jones will oversee the bank’s work on financial system stability and its role in payments system oversight and regulation.
The assistant governor role was left vacant earlier this year when former treasurer Josh Frydenberg appointed Michelle Bullock as RBA’s deputy governor following the exit of Guy Debelle.Dr Debelle was widely believed to be in the box seat to become the next governor of the RBA as early as September 2023,The appointment of Ms Bullock to the deputy role was