Primary Job Title Executive Vice President and Chief Economist Primary Organization 
McGraw Hill Financial
Gender Male
Paul Sheard is Executive Vice President and Chief Economist of McGraw Hill Financial. He spearheads the company’s economic and market thought-leadership and engages with a broad range of market participants and external stakeholders. Teams led by Dr. Sheard provide the macroeconomic forecasts used by Standard & Poor’s analysts during the
ratings process, conduct fixed income research, and analyze credit ratings performance. Dr. Sheard chairs the Standard & Poor’s Academic Council and helps to oversee the McGraw Hill Financial Global Institute. He is also a member of the Standard & Poor’s Executive Committee.
Previously, Dr. Sheard held chief economist positions at Nomura Securities and at Lehman Brothers and earlier he had been Head of Japan Equity Investments and Japan Strategist at Baring Asset Management in Tokyo.
Dr. Sheard speaks regularly at major conferences around the world and his views are frequently quoted in the international media. He was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the International Monetary System in 2010-12 and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Sheard was on the faculty at the Australian National University (ANU) and at Osaka University, and was a visiting researcher at Stanford University and at the Bank of Japan. Author or editor of several books and numerous articles on the Japanese economy, Dr. Sheard won the Suntory-Gakugei Prize in the Economics–Politics Division for his book, The Crisis of Main Bank Capitalism.
Dr. Sheard received his bachelor’s degree from Monash University in Australia and a master’s degree in Economics and a Ph.D. from the ANU.
