Katsiaryna Svirydzenka
Last Updated: May 30, 2024
Katsiaryna Svirydzenka is Deputy Division Chief at the IMF and Deputy Mission Chief for Sri Lanka, a complex case of macroeconomic adjustment under a 4-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and one of the few active sovereign debt restructuring cases. Prior to that, she was Mission Chief for Bhutan and Tuvalu and Assistant to the Director of the Asia and Pacific Department. Since joining the IMF in 2010, she contributed to the work of multiple IMF country teams, including Japan, India, Russia, Malaysia, Serbia, Mongolia, Solomon Islands, and others. Her research interests include financial cycles, network analysis and systemic risk, financial spillovers, financial development, diversification, firm-level productivity, and zombie firms. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), M.A. in International Economics and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Bologna, Italy, and Washington DC), and B.A. in Economics from the American University in Bulgaria.
Email: KSVIRYDZENKA@imf.org
Fluent In: French, Italian, Russian.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude avec Felicitations, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 2006-2010
M.A. in International Economics and International Relations, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy and Washington D.C., USA, 2002-2004
B.A. in Economics, Cum Laude, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 1998-2002
Previous Experience:
International Monetary Fund, Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, Emerging Markets Division, 2012-2017
International Monetary Fund, African Department, Mauritius and Mozambique, 2010-2012
Bank of England, Financial Stability Department, International Finance Division, Ph.D. internship, 2009
Study Center Gerzensee, Swiss National Bank, Teaching Assistant, 2008-2009
International Monetary Fund, European Department, Research Assistant, 2004-2006
Tudor Investment Corporation, Emerging Markets Group, Quantitative Analyst, 2004
Country work or Mission Assignment:
Article IV Surveillance: Japan, India, Russia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Mauritius, Tuvalu
Program negotiations and reviews: Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Serbia, Mongolia, Mozambique, Solomon Islands
Seminar Presentation:
Financial Cycles: Early Warning Indicators of Banking Crises? Analytical Corner at the 2018 IMF Spring Meetings
https://www.imfconnect.org/content/imf/en/annual-meetings/calendar/open/2018/04/17/financial_cyclesearlywarningindicatorsofbankingcrises_125729.html?display=none
Others:
Financial Development Index database: http://data.imf.org/fdindex
An innovative and widely used index that summarizes how developed financial institutions and financial markets are in terms of their depth, access, and efficiency in 183 countries on annual frequency from 1980. This work was featured at the 2015 NBER Summer Institute.
Field of Expertise:
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Macro-Financial Issues
International Finance