Mr. Baldini is the IMF resident representative for Zambia. Previously, he was senior economist at the IMF Institute for Capacity Development, where he coordinated the work for a new IMF online course “Financial Programming and Policies: Forecasting and IMF Program Design” and led missions to train government officials on IMF applied economics courses in Europe, Africa and in the Middle Eastern. He was a desk on countries with a Fund program in southern Europe, central Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Among others, he was part of the team negotiating IMF economic and financial programs in Zambia (2004-2005 and 2009-10) and Ghana (2010-2013). Before joining the Fund, he served in the Council of Economic Advisers of the Ministry of Finance of Italy and held teaching positions at the Bocconi University in Milan, London School of Economics, and New School for Social Research in New York.
His research has focused on model-based analysis and dynamic interactions between monetary and fiscal policy. He holds an MSc and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of London, UK and a degree in economics from Bocconi University, Italy. He is a national of Italy, married with one daughter and besides Italian, speaks fluently in English, French, and Spanish.
