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 Richard D. Fletcher is currently Principal Advisor in the Department of
Strategic Planning and Budget of the Inter-American Development Bank.
From January 1994 until February 1997 he was Deputy Director of the
Evaluation Office. Previously, he was Deputy Manager of the Plans and
Programs Department since July of 1985. From 1980-85 he served as Deputy
Manager for Integration in the Economic and Social Development
Department of the Bank.
Mr. Fletcher, a Jamaican national, came to the Bank after serving
prominently in international organizations and in the public service of
his country.
In 1977-80, he served as Minister of State for Finance and Planning in
Jamaica. Earlier, in 1972-73, he was Special Assistant for Economic
Affairs to the Prime Minister of Jamaica. In the interim, he served in
1973-77 as Executive President of the Sugar Institute of Jamaica.
In 1968-72 he was an economist in the Western Hemisphere Department of
the World Bank, as well as a loan officer.
Mr. Fletcher received a degree in economics from the University of the
West Indies in 1963 in Kingston. Attending Oxford University in England
as a Rhodes scholar, he was awarded an M.A. in jurisprudence in 1965 and
a Master of Philosophy degree in Economics in 1967. He was awarded a
barrister at law diploma by Middle Temple, London, in 1968.
He was born December 30, 1943; is married and has two children.
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