Amadou Sy
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative
Amadou Sy is a nonresident senior fellow and former director of the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Editorial Board of the Global Credit Review. He was previously deputy division chief at the International Monetary Fund. He focuses on banking, capital markets, and macroeconomics in Africa and emerging markets.
Amadou has held a variety of positions at the IMF over the last 15 years, covering more than 20 advanced, developing, and emerging countries and all the financial crises since 1998. In addition to his financial sector and country work, Amadou was deputy chief at the IMF Institute where he coordinated, developed and taught macroeconomics and finance courses to mid- and senior level staff from central banks and ministries of finance in Asia and Africa, as well as the IMF. He also worked on a project to set up a Trust Fund for capacity building in Africa.
His policy work won the runner-up 2011 ICFR-Financial Times Prize for best research on financial regulation. He also edited a book on the management of natural resources wealth, which is used in IMF training courses. Amadou has published in academic and practitioner journals, including the Journal of Banking & Finance, the Review of International Economics, the Journal of African Economies, IMF Staff Papers, the African Development Review, the Emerging Markets Review, the International Review of Financial Analysis, and the Journal of Fixed Income.
Amadou has written speeches for the IMF Managing Director and the head of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. He has presented his work at international conferences and central banks worldwide and has contributed to blogs, podcasts, webcasts, and columns in the financial press. He was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, Le Point (France), El Pais (Spain), Business Week, Financial Times, Les Echos (France), Il Sole (Italy), Economic Political Weekly (India), O Globo (Brazil) and El Mundo (Spain).
Amadou holds a Ph.D. in Finance from McGill University where he lectured in finance. He is a CFA Charter Holder and a certified Financial Risk Manager (GARP).
Amadou Sy is a nonresident senior fellow and former director of the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Editorial Board of the Global Credit Review. He was previously deputy division chief at the International Monetary Fund. He focuses on banking, capital markets, and macroeconomics in Africa and emerging markets.
Amadou has held a variety of positions at the IMF over the last 15 years, covering more than 20 advanced, developing, and emerging countries and all the financial crises since 1998. In addition to his financial sector and country work, Amadou was deputy chief at the IMF Institute where he coordinated, developed and taught macroeconomics and finance courses to mid- and senior level staff from central banks and ministries of finance in Asia and Africa, as well as the IMF. He also worked on a project to set up a Trust Fund for capacity building in Africa.
His policy work won the runner-up 2011 ICFR-Financial Times Prize for best research on financial regulation. He also edited a book on the management of natural resources wealth, which is used in IMF training courses. Amadou has published in academic and practitioner journals, including the Journal of Banking & Finance, the Review of International Economics, the Journal of African Economies, IMF Staff Papers, the African Development Review, the Emerging Markets Review, the International Review of Financial Analysis, and the Journal of Fixed Income.
Amadou has written speeches for the IMF Managing Director and the head of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. He has presented his work at international conferences and central banks worldwide and has contributed to blogs, podcasts, webcasts, and columns in the financial press. He was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, Le Point (France), El Pais (Spain), Business Week, Financial Times, Les Echos (France), Il Sole (Italy), Economic Political Weekly (India), O Globo (Brazil) and El Mundo (Spain).
Amadou holds a Ph.D. in Finance from McGill University where he lectured in finance. He is a CFA Charter Holder and a certified Financial Risk Manager (GARP).
At the end of the day, as we all know thorny national security issues don’t just involve the military; political-military considerations invariably bleed into them. If the senior military’s leadership views are going to be just constrained to military advice … who is thinking about issues from that broader perspective?
President-elect Bolsonaro has embraced tough-on-crime measures that egregiously violate basic human rights and eviscerate the rule of law. Responding to Brazil’s 63,880 homicides in 2017, Bolsonaro calls for increasing protection for police officers who kill alleged criminals and arming citizens. He calls for further militarizing urban policing, reducing the age of criminal liability from 18 to 16, reinstating the death penalty, authorizing torture in interrogations and imprisoning more people... Brazil’s police are already notorious for being one of the world’s deadliest in the use of force. In many favelas, Brazil’s retired and current police officers operate illegal militias that extort and control local communities, murdering those who oppose them and engaging in warfare with Brazil’s highly-violent gangs and in social cleansing. Bolsonaro is simply threatening to turn the rest of the police into state-sanctioned thugs.
Mao Zedong did not see the value of reform and opening up. The China part of Nixon’s 1967 Foreign Affairs article suggested an implicit bargain that provided the conceptual basis for China’s new direction after 1978. That bargain was if China focused on domestic development and didn’t threaten the security of its neighbours, the United States would help.
