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Ryan Straughn

Minister in the Barbados Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs

Ryan Straughn is the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Barbados. He is the founder and Managing Director/CEO of ABELIAN Consulting Services. He is a former Central Bank of Barbados economist with over 10 years of experience modelling macroeconomic business cycles and assessing the financial system's stability. At the Central Bank of Barbados, he also spent four years modelling the national economy and has consulted on rebasing Barbados’ economy since leaving the institution. Ryan joined the risk management department of Motability Operations (UK) in 2006 as an Asset Risk Analyst, where he conducted extensive risk analytics and economic capital modelling on the company’s portfolio worth £3.7 billion with annual turnover of £2.2 billion. In 2009, he formed ABELIAN Associates in the UK, where he provided consulting services for companies such as MasterCard Europe, HSBC, and Zurich.

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