The OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook is part of the activities of the OECD Working Party on Public Debt Management, incorporated in the programme of work of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs’ Bond Markets and Public Debt Management Unit. This Borrowing Outlook was prepared by the OECD Bond Markets and Public Debt Management Unit; Fatos Koc (Head of the Unit), Gary Mills (Statistician), and Caroline Lam (Project assistant). Cristina Casalinho (Debt Management Office, Portugal) contributed Chapter 2, co-authored by Lior David-Pur (Ministry of Finance, Israel). Levent Guntay (Director, Centre for Financial Engineering, Ozyegin University) and Carl M. Magnusson (Policy Analyst, OECD) have provided technical support on global sovereign bond data that used in Chapter 3.
OECD colleagues, Robert Patalano (Acting Head of Division) and Serdar Celik (Acting Head of Division), have provided their feedback to this edition of the publication; Enes Sunel (Economist) to Chapter 1 and 3; Lukasz Rawdanowicz (Senior Economist) to Chapter 1, and; Martin Kessler (Economist) to Chapter 3. Eldridge Katzenbach (Treasury, the United States) provided his valuable feedback to Chapter 1. The following Steering Committee members Teppo Koivisto (Chair; Treasury, Finland); Cristina Casalinho (Debt Management Office, Portugal); Davide Iacovoni (Treasury, Italy); Grahame Johnson (Central Bank, Canada); Rob Nicholl (Office of Financial Management, Australia); Sir Robert Stheeman (Debt Management Office, the United Kingdom); and Tomoya Yamashita (Ministry of Finance, Japan) have provided major contributions to Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. Pamela Duffin (Communications Manager) and Edward Smiley (Publications Officer) have supported the whole team with invaluable publishing guidance and editorial support.