Paul J. Sheard, an Australian American economist, is the former Vice Chairman of S&P Global and a former Senior Fellow and Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. He has held global chief economist positions at Standard & Poor's, Nomura Securities, and Lehman Brothers. Earlier he held faculty positions at Osaka University and at the Australian National University, and held visiting scholar positions at Stanford University and the Bank of Japan. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the New Agenda for Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Economic Club of New York, and the Foreign Policy Association.
