Executive Directors and Management Team
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Role and composition of the Executive Board
- The Executive Board (the Board) is responsible for conducting the IMF’s day-to-day business.
- It is composed of 25 Executive Directors, who are elected by member countries or by groups of countries, and the Managing Director, who serves as its Chair.
- IMF member countries are represented on the Executive Board, which discusses the national, regional, and global consequences of each member’s economic policies and approves IMF financing to help member countries address temporary balance of payments problems, as well as overseeing the IMF’s capacity development efforts.
Executive Directors (thumbnail list)
- Adriano Ubisse
- André Roncaglia
- Arnaud Buissé
- Bahador Bijani
- Bernd Kaltenhäuser
- Brad Recker
- Idwan Hakim
- Jeroen Clicq
- Jiyoung Choi
- Jun Mizuguchi
- Ksenia Yudaeva
- Leonardo Madcur
- Mohamed Alrashed
- Mohamed Maait
- Ouattara Wautabouna
- Patryk Łoszewski
- Regis N'Sonde
- Riccardo Ercoli
- Shannon Ding
- Urjit Patel
- Veda Poon
- Vitas Vasiliauskas
- Xiana Méndez Bertolo
- Yigit Korkmaz Yaşar
- Zhengxin Zhang
Managing Director and Deputy Managing Directors
- The IMF has a Managing Director, who is Chief of the operating staff of the Fund and Chair of the Executive Board. The Managing Director is assisted by a First Deputy Managing Director and three other Deputy Managing Directors.
- From left to right (photograph caption): Deputy Managing Director: NIGEL CLARKE, Deputy Managing Director: KENJI OKAMURA, First Deputy Managing Director: DAN KATZ, Managing Director: KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA, Deputy Managing Director: BO LI
Key positions:
- Managing Director — Kristalina Georgieva
- First Deputy Managing Director — Dan Katz
- Deputy Managing Director — Bo Li
- Deputy Managing Director — Kenji Okamura
- Deputy Managing Director — Nigel Clarke
Organizational structure (as of April 30, 2026*)
- As of April 30, 2026*
Area Departments:
- Abebe Selassie — Director, African Department
- Krishna Srinivasan — Director, Asia and Pacific Department
- Alfred Kammer — Director, European Department
- Jihad Azour — Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department
- Nigel Chalk — Director, Western Hemisphere Department
Functional Departments:
- Julie Kozack — Director, Communications Department
- Bernard Lauwers — Director, Finance Department
- Rodrigo Valdes — Director, Fiscal Affairs Department
- Catriona Purfield — Director, Institute for Capacity Development
- Yan Liu — General Counsel and Director, Legal Department
- Tobias Adrian — Financial Counsellor and Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department
- Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas — Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department
- Bert Kroese — Chief Statistician and Data Officer and Director, Statistics Department
- Christian Mumssen — Director, Strategy, Policy, and Review Department
Information and Liaison Offices:
- Takashi Nagaoka — Director, Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
- Robert Powell — Special Representative to the United Nations
- James John — Advisor, Offices in Europe
Support Services Departments:
- Sabina Bhatia — Director, Corporate Services and Facilities Department
- Brian Christensen — Director, Human Resources Department
- Shirin Hamid — Chief Information Officer and Director, Information Technology Department
- Ceda Ogada — Secretary of the Fund, Secretary's Department
Offices:
- Michele Shannon — Director, Office of Budget and Planning
- Pablo Moreno — Director, Independent Evaluation Office
- Ashlene van der Colff — Director, Office of Internal Audit
- Derek Bills — Advisor, Investment Office
- Romy Bowers — Director, Office of Risk Management
Recent leadership changes and notes
- Zeine Zeidane succeeded Abebe Selassie as Director of the African Department, effective May 4, 2026.
- Mateusz Szczurek succeeded Alfred Kammer as Director of the European Department, effective July 27, 2026.
- Silvana Tenreyro succeeded Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas as Director of the Research Department, effective August 10, 2026.
- Tobias Adrian departed the IMF, effective August 31, 2026.
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