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  "title": "Press Release: IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn Announces Department Director Appointments",
  "publication": "IMF News, May 27, 2008",
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  "summary": "Press Release No. 08/122",
  "publishDate": "2008-05-27",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Press Release No. 08/122\n- Date: May 27, 2008\n- Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn announced his intention to appoint four Department Directors:\n  - Mr. Olivier Blanchard as Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department.\n  - Ms. Antoinette Sayeh as Director of the African Department.\n  - Mr. Andrew Tweedie as Director of the Finance Department.\n  - Mr. Reza Moghadam as Director of the Policy Development and Review Department (PDR).\n- Mr. Strauss-Kahn described the appointments as comprising \"two external appointments to the Research and African Departments and two internal appointments to Finance and PDR.\""
    },
    {
      "heading": "Olivier Blanchard — Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department",
      "content": "- Current role at announcement: Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n- Profile highlights:\n  - Held numerous policy and academic advisory positions worldwide.\n  - Recognized academic in international macroeconomics with a wealth of publications.\n  - Publications cover topics including global imbalances and current account adjustment, financial assets and bubbles, savings and investment behavior, labor market performance, fiscal and monetary policy decision-making processes, and the economics of transition economies.\n- Mr. Strauss-Kahn: \"Olivier Blanchard's impressive and policy-oriented publications span almost every field of relevance to the Fund...\"\n- Expected start date: September 1."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Antoinette Sayeh — Director of the African Department",
      "content": "- Current role at announcement: Liberia's Finance Minister.\n- Career background:\n  - Led government's efforts to rebuild and reform Liberia's economy.\n  - Previously held managerial and advisory-level positions at the World Bank, including Country Director for Benin, Niger and Togo, and Advisor to Mr. Sven Sandstrom, Managing Director of the World Bank.\n- Mr. Strauss-Kahn: \"Antoinette Sayeh brings to the Fund impressive leadership and communications skills, as well as highly relevant policymaking experience.\"\n- Expected start date: July 7."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Andrew Tweedie — Director of the Finance Department",
      "content": "- Background:\n  - Member of the IMF Finance Department's senior management team for the last four years (as of the announcement).\n  - Previously worked in several other Fund departments.\n  - Served as an advisor to Deputy Managing Directors Shigemitsu Sugisaki and Takatoshi Kato.\n- Contributions cited:\n  - Played a pivotal role in the Fund's quota and voice reform and in the development of a new income model.\n  - Demonstrated strategic thinking, capacity to innovate, and ability to work well with stakeholders.\n- Expected start date: by September 1."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Reza Moghadam — Director of the Policy Development and Review Department (PDR)",
      "content": "- Current role at announcement: Head of the Managing Director's office.\n- Experience:\n  - Worked across strategic, policy, country and administrative issues.\n  - Contributed to the development of the Medium-Term Strategy and the Strategic Directions papers.\n  - Held senior positions in the Asia and Pacific and in the European Departments of the Fund.\n- Mr. Strauss-Kahn: \"Reza Moghadam has a track record of outstanding performance in a number of highly demanding assignments across the Fund...\"\n- Expected start date: by September 1.\n\nSource: IMF press release dated May 27, 2008 (Press Release No. 08/122).\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Benin and the IMF\n- Liberia and the IMF\n- Niger and the IMF\n- Togo and the IMF\n- Press Releases\n- PRESS CENTER\n- https://www.imf.org/en/home\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2015/09/14/01/49/pr08122"
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    "Published: May 27, 2008",
    "Press Release No. 08/122",
    "Date: May 27, 2008",
    "Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn announced his intention to appoint four Department Directors:",
    "Mr. Strauss-Kahn described the appointments as comprising \"two external appointments to the Research and African Departments and two internal appointments to Finance and PDR.\"",
    "Current role at announcement: Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.",
    "Profile highlights:",
    "Mr. Strauss-Kahn: \"Olivier Blanchard's impressive and policy-oriented publications span almost every field of relevance to the Fund...\"",
    "Expected start date: September 1.",
    "Current role at announcement: Liberia's Finance Minister.",
    "Career background:",
    "Mr. Strauss-Kahn: \"Antoinette Sayeh brings to the Fund impressive leadership and communications skills, as well as highly relevant policymaking experience.\"",
    "Expected start date: July 7.",
    "Background:",
    "Contributions cited:",
    "Expected start date: by September 1.",
    "Current role at announcement: Head of the Managing Director's office.",
    "Experience:",
    "Mr. Strauss-Kahn: \"Reza Moghadam has a track record of outstanding performance in a number of highly demanding assignments across the Fund...\"",
    "Expected start date: by September 1.",
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    "[Togo and the IMF](http://www.imf.org/external/country/TGO/index.htm)",
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