The Staff of the IMF Resident Representative Office in Skopje
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From left to right: Gjorgji Nacevski, Sasho Stojanovski, Biljana Davceva Mijoski, Bert van Selm in the center |
The IMF has maintained a Representative Office in Macedonia since 1995. The office performs a wide range of activities, contributing to the formulation of IMF policy advice, facilitating the policy dialogue and flow of information between IMF Headquarters and the Macedonian authorities, monitoring economic developments and performance under the IMF-supported economic program (the 2005-08 Stand-By Arrangement), coordinating technical assistance, and explaining the IMF's views on economic policy issues.
Mr. Bert van Selm is the Resident Representative of the IMF in Macedonia, since August 2006. His previous assignments at the IMF include economist positions on the Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Nigeria teams. Prior to joining the Fund, he was lecturer in international economics at Leiden University, the Netherlands (1995-8) and coordinator for IMF affairs at the Dutch Ministry of Finance (1998-2000). He has a PhD in economics from the University of Groningen, also in the Netherlands.
Mr. Gjorgji Nacevski is a country Assistant Economist and has been working for the IMF since 1998. He is following, inter alia, fiscal, monetary and real sector issues as well as progress in structural reforms. His previous assignment was at the Government Agency for Bank Rehabilitation.
Mrs. Biljana Davceva Mijoski is the Office Assistant since 2002. She handles all administrative and translation issues, the office post budget as well as warden officer duties. Her previous assignment was at Makpetrol a.d. Skopje.
Mr. Sasho Stojanovski is the Office Driver and Technical Assistant since 1995. He is in charge of the office logistics and of IT support.
Previous IMF Resident Representatives in Macedonia include Mr. Scott W. Rogers (1995-1997); Mr. Paulo F.N. Drummond (1997-2000), Mr. Jan G. Mikkelsen (2000-2003), and Mr. Kevin L. Ross (2003-2006).