Bradley Jones, a Deutsche Bank-trained banker, has been appointed to the position of assistant governor, financial system group at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
This is a sensitive role at the central bank, with oversight of the RBA’s role in the payments system and regulation.
The RBA said it “considered a competitive field of internal and external candidates for this role”, which became vacant following the appointment of Michele Bullock as deputy governor.
Jones, 44, joined the Reserve Bank in 2018 from the International Monetary Fund as head of international department, and most recently was head of economic analysis.
Before joining the Reserve Bank, Jones worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington for five years. At the IMF he served in the monetary and capital markets department where he was responsible for research and leading missions in the areas of financial stability and central bank asset and liability management.
Prior to this, he held senior macroeconomic research and global macro trading responsibilities for nine years at Deutsche Bank's Global Markets business in London and Hong Kong.
Jones holds a PhD in finance from Macquarie University, “and has published extensively on a wide range of topics related to financial stability, monetary policy and international financial markets,” the RBA said.