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Dr Keith Jefferis
Keith Jefferis is macroeconomist and financial sector specialist, and is Managing Director of Econsult Botswana (Pty) Ltd, and is a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Botswana. His current activities include work on a range of macroeconomic, financial and other development issues in Botswana and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. He has recently consulted for the World Bank, the African Development Bank, USAID, SADC, UNDP and a number of banks and other private sector firms on a range of economic and financial development issues. He is accredited to the IMF Technical Assistance Experts Register. His recent projects have included reviewing currency and exchange rate policy options for Zimbabwe; assessing the impact of global regulatory changes on banking supervision in Africa; the development of bond markets in East and Southern Africa; developing a privatisation strategy for Botswana’s National Development Bank; improving the supply of financial services and banking sector efficiency in Angola; and assessing the macroeconomic impact of HIV/AIDS in Botswana and Uganda. His other ongoing responsibilities include the position of Economic Advisor to the USAID Southern African Trade Hub; Chair of the Investment Committee for BIFM, Botswana’s largest asset manager, and working as Botswana’s representative for FinMark Trust, contributing to FinMark’s work on enhancing access to finance.
Dr Jefferis worked at the University of Botswana in the Department of Economics, from 1989 until 1996. He then moved to the Bank of Botswana where he was Deputy Director in the Research Department from 1996 until 1998.
After leaving the Bank he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA). He then returned to the Bank of Botswana as Deputy Governor from 1999 to 2005, on appointment by the then President of Botswana, H.E. Festus Mogae. Since 2005 he has worked as an independent consultant. He is originally from the UK and started his professional career as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) working as an economist in Swaziland. He has lived in Botswana since 1989 and is now a naturalised Botswana citizen.
