Gerard Johnson is senior advisor for Caribbean Initiatives at Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF). He also serves as a partner in an investment facilitation company, as a senior policy advisor to the minister of finance and the public service in Jamaica, and as the regional representative for an international firm specializing in trade facilitation. From 2010 to 2016, Johnson was general manager of the Caribbean Country Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), supervising all country offices, forging strategic partnerships with sovereigns, development banks, and regional organizations and building the largest development lending program in the subregion.

Previously, he served as country representative of the IDB in Jamaica, Haiti, and Guatemala, and as a director of the Compete Caribbean Program. He is currently a commissioner of the Jamaican Financial Services Commission. Johnson holds a BA in economics from Georgetown University, a postgraduate diploma in economic analysis and a maaster’s in economics from the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Johnson was an event speaker at the dialogue.