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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a global organization of 190 member countries set up to promote the health of the world economy.

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International Monetary and Financial Committee

Board of Governors

Joint IMF-World Bank Development Committee¹

Executive Board

Independent Evaluation Office

Charles Collyns

Director

Managing Directors & Deputy Directors

Knowledge Management Unit

Craig Sevy

Chief

Investment Office–Staff Retirement Plan

Derek Bills

Director

Office of Budget and Planning

Michele Shannon

Director

Office of Internal Audit

Nancy Asiko Onyango

Director

Office of Risk Management

Vivek Arora

Chief

Transfer to the African Department February 2021
Brenda Boultwood

Director

Appointed March 2021

Office of Innovation and Change

Gina Paone

Chief

Area Departments

African Department

Abebe Selassie

Director

Asia and Pacific Department

Chang Yong Rhee

Director

Chikahisa Sumi

Director

Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

European Department

Poul Thomsen

Director

Retirement announced February 2020
Alfred Kammer

Director

Appointed July 2020
Ashok Bhatia

Director

Offices in Europe

Middle East and Central Asia Department

Jihad Azour

Director

Western Hemisphere Department

Alejandro Werner

Director

Retirement announced April 2021

Functional and Special Services Departments

Communications Department

Gerard Rice

Director

Fiscal Affairs Department

Vitor Gaspar

Director

Institute for Capacity Development

Sharmini Coorey

Director

Abdoul Aziz Wane

Director

Africa Training Institute
Hervé Joly

Director

Joint Vienna Institute
Oussama Kanaan

Director

Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (in Kuwait)
Stephan Danninger

Director

Singapore Training Institute

Finance Department

Andrew Tweedie

Director

Retirement announced February 2021
Bernard Lauwers

Director

Appointed March 2021

Legal Department

Rhoda Weeks-Brown

General Counsel and Director

Monetary and Capital Markets Department

Tobias Adrian

Financial Counsellor and Director

Research Department

Gita Gopinath

Economic Counsellor and Director

Statistics Department

Louis Marc Ducharme

Chief Statistician and Data Officer and Director

Strategy, Policy, and Review Department

Martin Mühleisen

Director

Retirement announced July 2020
Ceyla Pazarbasioglu

Director

Appointed August 2020
Robert Powell

Special Representative (IMF Office United Nations)

Appointed August 2020

Support Services Departments

Corporate Services and Facilities Department

Jennifer Lester

Director

Human Resources Department

Kalpana Kochhar

Director

Information Technology Department

Edward Anderson

Chief Information Officer and Director

Secretary’s Department

Jianhai Lin

Secretary of the IMF and Director

Retirement announced February 2020
Ceda Ogada

Secretary of the IMF and Director

Appointed August 2020
  1. Known formally as the Joint Ministerial Committee of the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the Fund on the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries.