IMF RESEARCHER

Camilo E. Tovar is the Senior Economist in the Regional Studies Division of the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Department. He previously worked at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Representative Office for the Americas in Mexico and the Emerging Markets Issues Division of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS in Switzerland. He has also served as an Economic Advisor to the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquartered in Chile, as Advisor to the Finance Minister of Colombia and as Advisor to the Director of the National Planning Department in Colombia. Mr. Tovar, a Colombian citizen, holds a PhD and M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Los Andes (Colombia). His policy and research interests are on international finance, monetary policy, financial stability, macroprudential policies, and central banking issues. His research has been published in the Journal of International Money and Finance, the BIS Quarterly Review, Economic Review, and Economics e-Journal. He also is the author of a book on The Monetary and Financial Stability Implications of Capital Flows in Latin America and the Caribbean (Bank for International Settlements).

Email: CTOVAR@imf.org

Fluent In: Spanish.