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IMF Resident Representative Office in China and its Staff
What does the IMF Resident Representative Office do in China? The IMF Resident Representative Office in China was established in 1991. Since then, the main objective of the Office has been two-fold. First, the office maintains an ongoing policy dialogue with the Chinese authorities, together with headquarters staff, on macroeconomic and structural reform issues. It also monitors and analyzes economic developments, identifies policy issues, and informs the Fund staff at headquarters. In addition, the office exchanges views with the local and international community in these areas. Second, the office coordinates technical assistance programs with the authorities, headquarters staff, and the donor community. The aim is to help the authorities expedite reforms in a number of areas, including: monetary policy and banking activities, fiscal management, balance of payments policies and operations, economic and financial statistics compilation and dissemination, and capacity building in macroeconomic management. Beijing Office Library The Resident Representative's office in Beijing maintains a library that contains a number of IMF publications, including the World Economic Outlook, IMF Annual report, International Financial Statistics, Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook, Government finance Statistics Yearbook, Direction of Trade Statistics and IMF Chinese-English glossary of terms. The office is open to the public from 9 am-12:30 pm and 2 pm-5 pm, Monday to Friday. Please contact Li Jing at 86-10-6505-1155 ext. 208 for any queries about the library.
Senior IMF Resident Representative, China E-mail: varora@imf.org Education Ph.D., Economics, Brown University, 1995, (international economics). Brown-Harvard Graduate Exchange Program, Harvard University, Spring 1990. M.A., Economics, Brown University, 1988. B.A. (Honours), Economics, St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, 1987. Professional Experience IMF, 1992-present
Other experience
"Economic Spillovers: How Much do Trading Partners Matter for Growth?" with Athanasios Vamvakidis, Finance and Development, June 2005. "The Impact of U.S. Economic Growth on the Rest of the World: How Much Does It Matter?" with Athanasios Vamvakidis, Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 1(19), pp. 1-18, March 2004. "Economic Integration and the Exchange Rate Regime: Some Lessons from Canada," with Olivier Jeanne, IMF Policy Discussion Paper, PDP/01/1, May 2001. "Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: The Chinese System in Perspective," with John Norregaard, IMF Working Paper, October 1997. "Discrepancies in Bilateral Trade Statistics: The Case of China," with Kalpana Kochhar, IMF Paper on Policy Analysis and Assessment, June 1995.
IMF Resident Representative, China E-mail: tfeyzioglu@imf.org Biographical Information Tarhan Feyzioğlu has been the Resident Representative of the IMF in Beijing since December 2006. He was the senior desk on China at the IMF headquarters during 2002-05. Mr. Feyzioglu got his Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1990, specializing in econometrics and finance. During 1989-1995, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, and during part of this period he also was a consultant at the World Bank. Since he entered the IMF in 1996, in addition to China, he has worked on Korea, Hong Kong SAR, Finland, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Kiribati. EDUCATION: 1984 B.A., Economics, Bosporus UniversityIMF WORK EXPERIENCE: 2007-present: China: Resident Representative
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE 1989-1995 Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgetown University1993-1995 Consultant, Research Department, The World Bank 1985-1989 Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania 1987 Research Fellow, Central Bank of Republic of Turkey 1984 Assistant Financial Analyst, Trondheim of Strindens Sparebank, Norway OTHER: Nationality: Turkish SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: "Does Inflation in China Affect Inflation in the United States and Japan?" with Luke Willard, WP/06/36, IMF. "China's Emergence and Its Impact on the Global Economy;" joint with Nikola Spatafora and Yongzheng Yang, 2004, WEO, IMF. "Price Dynamics in China," in China's Growth and Integration into the World Economy: Prospects and Challenges, 2004, Occasional Paper No. 232, IMF. "Deflation: Determinants, Risks, and Policy Options", joint with Messrs. Kumar, Baig, Decressin, and Faulkner-MacDonagh, 2003, Occasional Paper No. 221. "China's Dynamic Economy Needs Structural Reforms to Sustain its Rapid Growth," with Tao Wang, IMF Survey, December 2003. Remainder of Team in Beijing Office Xu Caixia, Economist (seconded from People's Bank of China) Jin Li, Economist (seconded from the Ministry of Finance) Xu Haoxiong, Economist (seconded from State Administration of Foreign Exchange) Xu Wei, Part-time Economist Li Jing, Administrative Assistant/Accountant Wang Wenfeng, Despatcher/Driver (seconded from People's Bank of China) Lei Jinqiang, Despatcher/Driver Team at IMF Headquarters in Washington D.C. Steven Dunaway, Mission Chief for China, Deputy Director, Jahangir Aziz, Division Chief, China Division (Division 8), APD Brian Aitken, Deputy Division Chief , Division 8, APD Lamin Leigh, Senior Economist, Division 8, APD Cui Li, Economist, Division 8, APD Christoph Duenwald, Senior Economist, Policy Development and Review Department (PDR) Richard Podpiera, Senior Economist, Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM) |
