IMF -- Resident Representative Office for Nigeria

IMF Office in Nigeria

Resident Representative for Nigeria

Ari Aisen

Resident Representative

Office Information

9 Hon. Justice Mohammed Bello St.
Asokoro Abuja

Tel: (234) 9 2908 662 / (234) 8 074 985 880
Email: LBonet@imf.org

Ari Aisen, Resident Representative

Mr. Aisen, a national of Brazil, joined the IMF in 2003 and has gained extensive experience as a macroeconomist during his career. He has worked in the Western Hemisphere, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Central Asia, Africa, and Monetary and Capital Markets Departments covering a wide range of countries including Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Mozambique, Nepal, Tajikistan, Uganda and Uruguay. Mr. Aisen spent several years at the Central Bank of Chile where he accumulated experience on monetary policymaking under inflation targeting and was able to significantly contribute to the development of inflation targeting in Uganda. Throughout his career at the IMF, Mr. Aisen was Resident Representative twice: in Tajikistan from 2010-13 and in Mozambique from 2016-20.

He is currently the Resident Representative of the IMF Office in Nigeria, since October 2020.

Before joining the IMF, Mr. Aisen was a student at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he concluded his PhD in 2003. He taught macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international finance and trade in various universities in Brazil, Chile, Israel, and the United States and has published several academic articles in internationally renowned journals in the fields of international finance, macroeconomics and political economy.

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Press Briefing: By African Department
Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director, African Department, IMF
October 2020

Useful Information

This web page presents information about the work of the IMF in Nigeria, including the activities of the IMF Resident Representative Office. Additional information can be found on the Nigeria and IMF country page, including IMF reports and Executive Board documents that deal with Nigeria.

Nigeria and the IMF Country Page

At a Glance
Nigeria and the IMF
Fraudulent Scam Emails Using the Name of the IMF

At a Glance

Current IMF membership: 190 countries
Date of Nigeria's membership: March 30, 1961
Special Drawing Rights (SDR): 1498.96 million
Quota (SDR): 2454.5 million
Latest Article IV consultation: April 3, 2019

Office Activities

CNBC Interview – Power Lunch

CNBC Africa Interview with Resident Representative, Ari Aisen.

November 25, 2021
Channels TV Interview- Business Morning

Ari Aisen Reviews IMF’s Report And Its Implications On Nigeria’s Economy

November 25, 2021
Hybrid REO Presentation Event

Resident Representative, Ari Aisen, presented the latest Regional Economic Outlook in a hybrid mode in Lagos. The event was organized in partnership with the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG).

November 24, 2021
Nigeria Development Partners Presentation

Development Partners Presentation on Macroeconomic Developments

August 20, 2021
SDR allocation channels interview

SDR Allocation Channels Television Interview of August 11, 2021.

August 11, 2021
Nigeria SDR allocation NTA interview

Interview on the SDR Allocation with NTA on August 9, 2021.

August 9, 2021

Nigeria and the IMF

Nigeria: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2021 Article IV Mission

November 19, 2021
Five Observations on Nigeria’s Central Bank Digital Currency

November 16, 2021
Transcript of the World Economic Outlook Update Press Briefing

July 27, 2021
UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable-Development

July 6, 2021

Over the last 18 months, we have been grappling with loss and hardship. In the words of the young American poet Amanda Gorman: “When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?” The good news is “light” is coming. The global economy is recovering. And as Dr. Tedros said before me, there is a path to end the pandemic. At the IMF, we raised our global growth forecast to 6 percent in 2021 and 4 percent in 2022. And we recognize the exceptional and synchronized fiscal and monetary actions by policymakers around the world to cushion the impact of the crisis. Without them, the recession last year would have been three times worse, another Great Depression.
What Financial Choices for Africa in the Face of Climate Change?

July 1, 2021

October 21, 2021

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Fraudulent Scam Emails Using the Name of the IMF

We would like to bring to the notice of the general public that several variants of financial scam letters purporting to be sanctioned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or authored by high ranking IMF officials are currently in circulation, and may appear on official letterhead containing the IMF logo. The scam letters instruct potential victims to contact the IMF for issuance of a “Certificate of International Capital Transfer” or other forms of approval, to enable them receives large sums of monies as beneficiaries. The contact e-mail information is always BOGUS and unsuspecting individuals are then requested to send their personal banking details which the scammers utilize for their fraudulent activities.
For more information please see Fraudulent Scam Emails Using the Name of the IMF

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The Departmental African Paper Series covers research on Sub-Saharan Africa conducted by International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff, particularly on issues of broad regional or cross-country interest. The views expressed in these papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF, its Executive Board, or IMF management.

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