Avinash D. Persaud (born 22 June 1966 in Barbados, West Indies) is emeritus Professor of Gresham College in the UK.

He was the Chairman of Intelligence Capital Ltd.,[1] a company specializing in analyzing, managing and creating financial liquidity in investment projects and portfolios.

He was the economic expert on the UK Government's Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information, (2005–2009) (APPSI).

He was appointed a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (2001–2002) working on risk appetite measures[3] and a visiting researcher at the European Central Bank (ECB) (2005) working on issues of liquidity and transparency in European financial markets.

He is a patron of the Bishnodat Persaud Scholarship and a former trustee of the Nita and Errol Barrow Educational Trust and the Lokahi Foundation.

His elder brother is psychiatrist Raj Persaud and his younger sister is former city Economist Sharda Dean.