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Executive Directors & Management Team
The IMF has a management team and 18 departments that carry out its country, policy, analytical, and technical work. The IMF’s organization chart can be found here.
Executive Directors and Alternates
The Executive Board is responsible for conducting the day-to-day business of the IMF. It is composed of 24 Executive Directors, who are elected by member countries or by groups of countries, and the Managing Director, who serves as its Chair.
All IMF member countries are represented on its Executive Board, which discusses the national, regional, and global consequences of each member’s economic policies and approves IMF financing to help member countries address temporary balance of payments problems, as well as oversees the IMF’s capacity development efforts.
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alternates and constituency
Management Team
The IMF has a Managing Director, who is head of the staff and Chair of the Executive Board. The Managing Director is assisted by a First Deputy Managing Director and three other Deputy Managing Directors.
From left to right: First Deputy Managing Director: GITA GOPINATH, Deputy Managing Director: KENJI OKAMURA, Managing Director: KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA, Deputy Managing Director: BO LI, Deputy Managing Director: ANTOINETTE SAYEH.
Senior Officials
Senior Officers as of April 30, 2023
Area Departments
Abebe Selassie
Director, African Department
Krishna Srinivasan
Director, Asia and Pacific Department
Alfred Kammer
Director, European Department
Jihad Azour
Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department
Rodrigo Valdés
Director, Western Hemisphere Department
Information and Liaison Offices
Akihiko Yoshida
Director, Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Robert Powell
Special Representative to the United Nations
Ashok Bhatia
Director, Offices in Europe
Support Services Departments
Brian Christensen
Director, Corporate Services and Facilities Department
Catriona Purfield
Director, Human Resources Department
Shirin Hamid
Chief Information Officer and Director, Information Technology Department
Ceda Ogada
Secretary of the Fund, Secretary’s Department
Offices
Michele Shannon
Director, Office of Budget and Planning and Office of Transformation Management
Pablo Moreno
Director, Independent Evaluation Office
Nancy Onyango
Director, Office of Internal Audit
Derek Bills
Head, Investment Office
Brenda Boultwood
Director, Office of Risk Management
Functional Departments
Julie Ann Kozack
Director, Communications Department
Bernard Lauwers
Director, Finance Department
Vitor Gaspar
Director, Fiscal Affairs Department
Dominique Desruelle
Director, Institute for Capacity Development
Rhoda Weeks-Brown
General Counsel and Director, Legal Department
Tobias Adrian
Financial Counsellor and Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department
Albert Kroese
Chief Statistician and Data Officer and Director, Statistics Department
Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
Director, Strategy, Policy, and Review Department
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