Director

Dr Cyrus Rustomjee

Cyrus Rustomjee assumed his post as Director: Economic Affairs Division, in January 2009. The Division is responsible for the Commonwealth Secretariat’s work in economic and financial sector development, trade, small states and the environment.

Previously, he was Chairperson of South Africa’s non-bank financial sector regulatory authority and of the Minister of Finance’s advisory board on financial policy and regulation. In 2007 Cyrus headed the G-20 Secretariat during South Africa’s term as G-20 Chair.

He has served in international financial institutions, in the Executive Board of the World Bank and as Executive Director in the IMF Executive Board, representing 21 sub-Saharan African countries. Prior to this, he worked as Advisor in the Ministry of Finance in South Africa’s first post-apartheid government, as technical advisor to the multi-party constitutional authority, advising on the finance, fiscal, revenue and central banking clauses of South Africa’s new constitution. He previously worked in economic planning ahead of the country’s political transition and much earlier, in corporate banking and project finance in South Africa. He has worked in academia.

Cyrus holds graduate qualifications in Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Commerce and in Private Law & Business Economics. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Banking, Masters in Development Economics and Ph.D in Economics.

Contact:

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7747 6250
Email: c.rustomjee@commonwealth.int