Anoop Singh

Anoop Singh is Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund.

Mr. Singh, an Indian national, holds graduate and post graduate degrees from the universities of Bombay, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. During his career at the Fund, his appointments have included: Director, Special Operations in the Office of the Managing Director; Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Department; Senior Advisor, Policy Development and Review Department, Assistant Director, European Department, and IMF Resident Representative in Sri Lanka.

His additional work experience includes: Special Advisor to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (I.G. Patel and Manmohan Singh); Senior Economic Advisor to the Vice President, Asia Region, the World Bank; and sometime lecturer in Economics in Bombay University.

Mr. Singh has worked and written on macroeconomic, surveillance, and crisis management issues, helping design Fund-supported programs in emerging market, transition, and developing countries in South and South-East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. He led missions to Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia during the Asian crises in 1997-99, to Vietnam, Bulgaria, and Albania during their early transition experiences in the late 1980s-early 1990s, to the Philippines, India, Australia, China, Japan, and Argentina, and now directs the work of the Western Hemisphere department.

Among publications, Mr. Singh has co-authored or co-edited “Sustaining Latin America’s Resurgence: Some Historical Perspectives” (2006), "Stabilization and Reform in Latin America: A Macroeconomic Perspective on the Experience Since the 1990s" (2005), "Australia, Benefiting from Economic Reform" (1998), "Macroeconomic Issues Facing ASEAN Countries," (1997), and Monetary Policy in India: Issues and Evidence (1982). He has organized several conferences and seminars on political and economic issues affecting the ASEAN countries, "Asia and the IMF", the Andean region, Central America, Indonesia, and Argentina.