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Jeff Kearns

Jeff Kearns

Jeff Kearns is a senior communications officer in the IMF policy communications division and managing editor of IMF Blog. He joined the Fund from Bloomberg News, where he was an economics editor in Beijing and Washington, a Federal Reserve reporter in Washington, and a US stock market reporter in New York. He also has covered state and local politics and government for California newspapers in Sacramento and San Jose. Jeff was born in Seattle and holds an English degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and master's in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.