Missions

As an IMF external short-term expert (STX):

Mauritania (2023)

• IMF technical assistance mission with the Central Bank of Mauritania
  • Liquidity forecasting, monetary framework and monetary operations

Singapore (2023)

• IMF 1-week training on FX Intervention Rules: A Risk-Based Framework with the IMF Singapore Training Institute (STI)
  • Training in statistics/econometrics, central banking and programming (including Python workshops)
  • 29 participants from 14 central banks

Singapore (2022)

• IMF 1-week training on Forecasting Framework Central Bank Systemic Liquidity with the IMF Singapore Training Institute (STI)
  • Training in statistics/econometrics, central banking and programming (including workshops)
  • 16 participants from 12 central banks

As an IMF staff:

Bosnia and Herzegovina (2022, mission chief, team of six people)

• IMF technical assistance mission with the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Foreign reserves and risk management, risk modeling, institutional framework

Burundi (2022)

• IMF technical assistance mission with the Central Bank of Burundi
  • Monetary framework and monetary operations

Algeria (2022, mission chief, team of five people)

• IMF technical assistance mission with the Central Bank of Algeria
  • Liquidity forecasting

United Arab Emirates (2021, co-mission chief, team of seven people)

• IMF technical assistance mission with the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates
  • Operational framework for liquidity management, monetary operations calibration, liquidity forecasting and financial modeling

Namibia (2021, mission chief, team of four people)

• IMF technical assistance mission with the Central Bank of Namibia
  • Liquidity forecasting

Jordan (2021, mission chief, team of four people)

• IMF technical assistance mission with the Central Bank of Jordan
  • Liquidity forecasting

Djibouti (2021, mission chief, team of four people)

• IMF technical assistance mission with the Central Bank of Djibouti
  • Liquidity forecasting

Hong Kong SAR (2021)

• IMF Financial System Stability Assessment Program with the Hong Kong SAR Monetary Authorities (HKMA)
  • Monetary operations and systemic liquidity management
  • Commercial banks liquidity stress-testing

West African Economic and Monetary Union (2021)

• IMF Financial System Stability Assessment Program with the Central Bank of West African States
  • Main stress-tester: scenario design, solvency stress-tests, etc.

Tunisia (2020)

• IMF technical assistance mission with the Central Bank of Tunisia
  • Liquidity management and forecasting

South Korea (2020)

• IMF technical assistance mission to the Bank of Korea
  • Foreign reserves management and portfolio management

Morocco (2020)

• IMF technical assistance mission to the Bank Al-Maghrib
  • Foreign exchange interventions and FX modeling

Democratic Republic of Congo (2020)

• IMF program negotiations
  • Supported the country team as the monetary economist for the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) program

People’s Republic of China (2019, mission chief)

• IMF technical assistance mission to the People’s Bank of China
  • Financial modeling and risk evaluation

United States (2019)

• IMF recruitment team for the Economist Program (EP)
  • Universities of Chicago, Northwestern, Minnesota, Michigan

Hong Kong SAR (2019)

• IMF Financial System Stability Assessment Program
  • Monetary operations and systemic liquidity management
  • Commercial banks liquidity stress-testing

India, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore (2019)

• IMF technical outreach
  • Teaching density modeling to staff of central banks and the Asian Development Bank

Israel (2019)

• IMF Article IV
  • Supported the Bank of Israel with the implementation of a density forecasting model
  • Balance of payments analysis

Albania (2018-2019)

• IMF Post-Program Monitoring, Article IV
  • Monetary, financial and real sectors
  • Four missions

Peru (2018)

• IMF Financial System Stability Assessment Program
  • Density modeling and systemic liquidity management

People’s Republic of China (2015)

• European Central Bank, negotations mission
  • Negotiations with the People’s Bank of China to build the RMB portfolio of the Eurosystem