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Director

José Maurel

José Maurel was appointed Director of the Special Advisory Services Division (SASD) in September 2007.

He is responsible for the effective delivery of SASD’s technical assistance and capacity building activities in areas such as debt management; trade facilitation; enterprise development; natural resources development and maritime boundaries negotiations.   

José is a career economist specialising in development finance. After his undergraduate studies, he returned home to Mauritius where he worked as an Economist in the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development between 1981 and 1987. He began his international career in 1988 when he was appointed Debt Management Adviser at the Central Bank of Belize. After a short stint as a freelance consultant, José joined the Commonwealth Secretariat in 1991 and has greatly contributed to the focus and content of our capacity building programme in debt management.

José holds a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University (USA) and a joint honors degree in Economics and Politics from the University of Keele (UK).

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7747 6438
Email: j.maurel@commonwealth.int