Pranav Gupta is a senior economist with over 12 years of experience at the IMF, specializing in a range of developing countries and policy areas, including the IMF’s lending operations, bilateral surveillance, and capacity development. He has extensive country experience working as an IMF economist on Armenia, Malawi, Mongolia, and Zambia, and is an accomplished researcher, having published papers in the Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of African Economies, and International Economics. He has also been actively involved in several IMF technical assistance missions, focusing on forecasting and policy analysis modeling for the central banks of India, Rwanda, and Tanzania.
Before joining the IMF’s Nepal Resident Representative Office, he worked as a Senior Economist on the Mongolia team and was actively involved in leveraging AI technologies to enhance productivity within the IMF. Prior to the IMF, he worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, D.C., and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, and holds a master’s degree in economics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.
