David Beers

David T. Beers (Col ’75 L/M) and his coauthor, Patrisha de Leon-Manlagnit, published their latest joint staff working paper on the BoC-BoE sovereign default database. Covering the period 1960-2018, it’s the only data set that quantifies and tracks all types of defaulted debt owed to official and private creditors. The paper is available for download and the 2019 version of the database is available here. 

David Beers (Col ’75 CM) has been a consultant and adviser to the international directorate at the Bank of England since August 2014. In 2012-13, he was special adviser to the governor at the Bank of Canada. He worked at Standard & Poor’s in New York and London between 1990 and 2011 in various roles, most recently as global head of sovereign and international public finance ratings.

David T. Beers (Col ’75 L/M) is special adviser to the governor of the Bank of Canada. Previously, Mr. Beers worked for 21 years at Standard & Poor’s, based in New York and, since 1997, in London. His most recent position at S&P was as global head of sovereign and international public ratings.