Mr. Colin Bullock

Colin Bullock attended the University of the West Indies from 1969 to 1974 earning BSc. and MSc. degrees in Economics. He has lectured in the Department of Economics at UWI Mona from 1974 to 1986 and from September 2008 to April 2013. His teaching has included Macroeconomic Theory, Monetary Economics, Public Finance and Public Policy.

He joined the Research and Economic Programming Division at Bank of Jamaica in 1986 as Director of Macroeconomic Programming and progressed through being Senior Director for Research and Economic Information to Deputy Governor, Research and Economic Programming by 1996. He served in that capacity from 1996 to 2005 and concurrently as Deputy Governor with responsibility for Banking and Market Operations from 1998 to 2005.

Colin Bullock’s responsibilities at Bank of Jamaica included monitoring of and design of mechanisms to maintain external competitiveness, macroeconomic policy design, analysis and forecasting, economic information and publication, macroeconomic programme monitoring, economic research development, managing foreign exchange market liberalization, currency, banking and financial market operations and official foreign reserve management.

He was seconded from Bank of Jamaica to Ministry of Finance to serve as Financial Secretary from 2005 to 2008. His responsibilities at Ministry Of Finance included fiscal budgeting and management of budgetary operations, fiscal policy advice, public debt management, revenue administration and protection, and public finance reform.

He served as a member of the Government of Jamaica’s team for external economic negotiations from 1986 to 2008 and on several occasions acted as team leader. His external interface included the IMF and other multilateral financial institutions, central banks, credit rating agencies and investment banks and brokerage houses.

Having served on boards including Bank of Jamaica, the Planning Institute of Jamaica and the Statistical Institute of Jamaica, he was appointed by the Minister of Finance as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Financial Services Commission effective March 2012. He serves as an economic advisor to the Minister of Finance and has recently been appointed as Chairman and Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica and Chairman of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund.