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  "title": "Tobias Adrian",
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  "summary": "Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).",
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  "publishDate": "2025-07-10",
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      "heading": "Role and responsibilities",
      "content": "- Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).\n- Leads the IMF’s work on:\n  - financial sector surveillance\n  - monetary and macroprudential policies\n  - digital money\n  - financial regulation\n  - bank resolution\n  - capital markets\n- Oversees capacity building activities in IMF member countries in:\n  - supervision and regulation of financial systems\n  - bank resolution\n  - central banking\n  - monetary and exchange rate regimes\n  - tokenized money and finance\n  - debt management"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Previous experience",
      "content": "- Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.\n- Associate Director of the Research and Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.\n- Contributed to monetary policy, to financial stability policies, and to crisis management while at the Federal Reserve."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Research, publications, and teaching",
      "content": "- Published extensively in economics and finance journals.\n- Research areas include macro-finance, monetary policy, and financial stability, with a focus on aggregate consequences of capital market developments.\n- Taught at Princeton University, New York University, and Seoul National University.\n- Served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Central Banking and the Annual Review of Financial Economics."
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    {
      "heading": "Education and early qualifications",
      "content": "- Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n- MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics.\n- Diplom from Goethe University Frankfurt.\n- Maîtrise from Dauphine University Paris.\n- Abitur in Literature and Mathematics from Humboldtschule Bad Homburg."
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    "Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.",
    "Associate Director of the Research and Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.",
    "Contributed to monetary policy, to financial stability policies, and to crisis management while at the Federal Reserve.",
    "Published extensively in economics and finance journals.",
    "Research areas include macro-finance, monetary policy, and financial stability, with a focus on aggregate consequences of capital market developments.",
    "Taught at Princeton University, New York University, and Seoul National University.",
    "Served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Central Banking and the Annual Review of Financial Economics.",
    "Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.",
    "MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics.",
    "Diplom from Goethe University Frankfurt.",
    "Maîtrise from Dauphine University Paris.",
    "Abitur in Literature and Mathematics from Humboldtschule Bad Homburg."
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