Jacqueline Irving

Jacqueline Irving is a consultant economist for the Migration & Remittances Team. She has also worked for the World Bank’s African Department, on local sources of infrastructure finance in Africa, and the Development Prospects Group’s Global Development Finance report, as a coauthor, on topics including South-South bank lending and foreign investment in African bond markets. She has participated in operational work and published papers, including for the IMF, on African countries’ access to foreign private capital and regional integration of African securities markets. Previous experience includes 7 years with the Economist Intelligence Unit, most recently leading a team of analysts for the country report series, Financing Foreign Operations. She has continued to contribute occasional articles on African financial markets to the EIU and has also consulted for the UN, including the DSG's Development Financing Unit and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. She has a Master's degree from Columbia University.