Céline Rochon
Last Updated: July 28, 2022
Celine Rochon is a Senior Economist at the IMF, currently working in the Institute for Capacity Development (Financial Policies Division).
Fluent In: French.
Education:
2000: PhD (Economics), CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain
1997: MSc (Economics), CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain
1996: MSc (Mathematics), University of Ottawa
1994: BSc (Mathematics), University of Ottawa
Previous Experience:
2005 - 2013: Associate Professor in Finance (with tenure), Said Business School, University of Oxford
2001 - 2005: Associate Professor (with tenure), THEMA, Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France
IMF Career:
Since October 2019: Institute for Capacity Development, Financial Policies Division. Tonga FPAS TA mission chief; Central Bank Digital Currencies course lead; Financial Sector Surveillance course lead.
April 2016 - September 2019: Strategy, Policy and Review Department. September 2018-19: SPR Mission at the Banque de France in support of the French G7 Presidency. April 2016 - September 2018: Macro-Financial Unit; Advanced Economies and Multilateral Issues Division; SPR economist on the U.S. team.
September 2010 - March 2016: IMF Institute for Capacity Development, African Division. Training missions: Financial Markets and New Financial Instruments (Austria, Singapore), Mortgage Markets, Securitization and Structured Finance (Austria, Singapore), Economic Policies for Financial Stability (Austria, Kuwait, Mauritius, Singapore, Tunisia), Financial Market Analysis (Austria, Mauritius, South Africa), Economic Issues in Regional Integration (Mauritius, Tanzania), Financial Programming and Policies (Ghana), Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies (Mauritius, Uganda), Finance for Macroeconomists (IMF HQ), Extracting Information from Financial Markets (IMF HQ - for staff).
2014 Article IV Consultation Mission to Qatar. Between 2005-2010: Visiting Scholar at the IMF Institute, and consultant on training missions in China, Austria and Singapore.