KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition Leader, Andrew Holness, has announced the appointment of Fayval Williams to the Party’s Council of Deputy Spokespersons, with a focus on Finance.

Williams is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). She has a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), with concentration in finance from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) in Economics from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Her overseas experiences include: equity analysis at Putnam Investments, a top-10-global mutual fund manager in Boston, Massachusetts; Wellington Management Company, which is also located in Boston; and Northwestern Mutual Life, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where her responsibilities included daily trading of a variety of fixed income securities.

In Jamaica, she has consulted with the Financial Services Commission (FSC), in the area of risk management, research and policy, prior to which she consulted with Jamaica Money Market Brokers Limited (JMMB) in the areas of market risk management and investment research.

Her other responsibilities included interfacing with the FSC and the Jamaica Security Dealers Association (JSDA), on issues such as the impact of international accounting standards (particularly IAS39), development of a local Jamaican fixed income yield curve and determining capital adequacy and margin requirement for the local Repo Market.

Williams was born in Tydixon, St Catherine and attended Ferncourt High School.

The opposition Jamaica Labour Party’s spokesman on finance and planning is Audley Shaw.