Michele Robinson |Debt Management Consultant

Delivering excellence in consultancy services in public debt management.



Michele Robinson is a public debt management consultant with over 30 years of experience at the national and international level.  She has worked as an independent public debt management consultant since 2003. 

Clients and Partners

Mrs. Robinson has undertaken projects for several international and regional organisations in the area of debt management. Her clients and partners include:

• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
  
• Caribbean Technical Assistance Centre (IMF-CARTAC)
• Commonwealth Secretariat
• Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
• Crown Agents
• Debt Relief International
• Eastern Caribbean Central Bank - Debt Management Advisory Services (DMAS)
• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• International Law Institute (ILI)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  
• Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre (IMF-PFTAC)
• The World Bank

Country Assignments

She has undertaken debt management assignments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Eastern Europe.

By region, countries include:

Africa:

• Cape Verde, The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho,  Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Swaziland

Asia:

• Myanmar

Eastern Europe:

• Azerbaijan

Caribbean:

• Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands

Pacific

• Papua New Guinea, Tonga
  

Mrs. Robinson was a member of the award-winning consulting team whose work in Nigeria in establishing the debt management office and achieving a record US$18 billion debt cancellation from the Paris Club earned Crown Agents the British Large Consultancy Firm of the Year 2006 Award.

Publications

She is author of the Commonwealth publications:

• Debt Transparency and Data Quality in the Caribbean (2021)
• Introducing Hurricane Clauses - The Grenada Experience (2016)
• Assessment of Debt Restructuring Operations in Commonwealth Small States (2015), Commonwealth Secretariat.

She is also one of the co-authors of the book:

• Debt and Development in Small island Developing States, edited by Damien King and David F. Tennant, Palgrave Macmillan 2014.

 

She is also a co-author of the Caribbean Development Bank publication:

• Public Sector Debt in the Caribbean - An Agenda for Reduction and Sustainability, Caribbean Development Bank, 2013.

CV available on request.

Capabilities

• Builds strong long-term professional relationships
• Builds technical expertise in public debt management
• Provides expert training in various areas of public debt management including - debt portfolio analysis, debt management systems (CS-DRMS), debt restructuring.
• Specialises in instutional assessments and strengthening in public debt management; public debt statistics including preparing debt statistics bulletins and data validation; and documenting procedures for public debt management.



PDM Training workshop in Jamaica (2017)



Facilitating Debt Managers Forum in St. Kitts and Nevis (2016)

Institutional strenthening in Tonga (2011)

    Customised training for debt managers in Mozambique (2008)

Technical assistance in Azerbaijan (2008)

Citations

Michele Robinson

Commonwealth of Learning (COL) newsletter (November 2012) - Role as CS-DRMS e-learning tutor. Read here