Resident Representative for Peoples Republic of China
Alfred Schipke
Senior Resident Representative of China
Office Information
Room 1806, East Tower, Twin TowersNo. B12, Jianguomenwai AvenueBeijing 100022, P.R. China
Email:
RR-CHN@IMF.ORG
Tel: +86 10 6505 1155
Fax: +86 10 6505 8580
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Alfred Schipke,
Senior Resident Representative of China
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Alfred Schipke, is the IMF Senior Resident Representative for China. Previously, he was a division chief in the Asia and Pacific Department, where he coordinated the work on fast growing low income countries in South-East Asia (Frontier Economies) and led missions to Vietnam. He was a division chief in the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Department in charge of the Latin Caribbean and Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) divisions. Among others, he negotiated a high access Stand-by Arrangement, which included a debt restructuring and a debt-equity swap for one of the countries in the ECCU, as well as an $800 million precautionary Stand-By Arrangement for El Salvador. Also, he was the Regional Resident Representative for Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic and worked in the IMF European Department. He teaches international trade and finance at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government and has authored and edited a number of books and articles, including a recently published handbook on the ECCU. His research has focused on economic integration and the linkages between macroeconomics and finance.
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Zhang Longmei,
Deputy Resident Representative of China
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Longmei Zhang, is the IMF Deputy Resident Representative for China. Previously, she was a China economist in the Asia and Pacific Department based in Washington D.C., where she focused on macroeconomic forecasting, broader China rebalancing and issues on high savings. Before working on China, she has worked on regional issues in the Asia Pacific, and published researches in a wide range of areas, including long-term growth/middle-income trap, macroprudential policies, corporate leverage, and capital flows and asset prices. Prior to that, she has worked on the Philippines, focusing on macro surveillance and labor market issues. She also worked on Romania, engaged in IMF program negotiations and reviews. She holds a PhD in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt.
