Amadou N. R.Sy
Last Updated: May 10, 2019
Amadou is an advisor in the IMF African Department where he coordinates the Financial and Monetary Sector Network. His current research includes issues related to FinTech, correspondent banking relations, excess liquidity, and macrofinancial linkages. Amadou is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Africa Growth Initiative (AGI) at the Brookings Institution which he was leading until January 2017. There he led policy and research work on macroeconomic and financial issues. His work on the Financing for Development agenda has been influential in global policy circles and he has provided expert advice to the African Development Bank, Making Finance Work for Africa, and the UN. Amadou his the author of “Africa through an economic lens” (Brookings Institution Press) and an editor of “Beyond the Curse: Policies to Harness the Power of Natural Resources” (IMF). Amadou has published in academic and practitioner journals, including Emerging Markets Review, IMF Staff Papers, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of African Economies, and the Review of International Economics. His policy work won the runner-up 2011 ICFR-Financial Times Prize for best research on financial regulation. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Revue d’Economie du Développement, manages the African Economic Research Consortium Visiting Scholars program at the IMF, and has been a member of Ph.D. Thesis Committees at the Université d’Auvergne, France. Amadou holds a Ph.D. in Finance from McGill University where he lectured in finance and is a CFA Charter holder and a Certified Financial Risk Manager (GARP).
Email: ASY@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://ideas.repec.org/e/psy16.html#papers
Fluent In: French.