Experts & Advisors
Spencer Jones
Senior Managing Director
Spencer Jones is a Senior Managing Director based in London. He has 30 years of experience advising sovereign governments and their creditors on a wide variety of financial matters including funding, risk management, and debt restructuring.
Experience
Spencer has been closely involved in some of the most significant sovereign financial transactions in recent years including numerous benchmark issuances in the international capital markets, the largest debt write-off for a middle-income country at that time, and the first sovereign buy back of official sector claims undertaken on market terms. He has been working in the international financial markets for the last 35 years.
Spencer has advised the governments of the Dominican Republic, Iraq, Jordan, Ecuador, Serbia, Peru, and Pakistan on debt restructuring negotiations or transformative liability management transactions. He has also advised bondholders and other creditors on sovereign debt workouts in Barbados, Belize, and Chad and is currently advising the Zambian bondholder committee and a consortium of domestic creditors in Sri Lanka.
Spencer has a degree in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University. He is a member of the Institute for International Finance’s Principles Consultative Group and Committee for Sovereign Risk Management.
- Education
- BA, Oxford University
