## Tobias Adrian

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**Canonical URL:** [Tobias Adrian](https://www.imf.org/en/about/senior-officials/bios/tobias-adrian)

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Blogs
- Published: July 10, 2025

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### Role and responsibilities
- Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- Leads the IMF’s work on:
  - financial sector surveillance
  - monetary and macroprudential policies
  - digital money
  - financial regulation
  - bank resolution
  - capital markets
- Oversees capacity building activities in IMF member countries in:
  - supervision and regulation of financial systems
  - bank resolution
  - central banking
  - monetary and exchange rate regimes
  - tokenized money and finance
  - debt management

### Previous experience
- 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.

### Research, publications, and teaching
- 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.

### Education and early qualifications
- 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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## References

- [IMF Senior Officials](https://www.imf.org/en/About/senior-officials)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/about/senior-officials/bios/tobias-adrian_