Executive Directors & Management Team
The IMF has a management team and 18 departments that carry out its country, policy, analytical, and technical work. An organization chart can be found on the IMF webpage Senior Officials of the International Monetary Fund.
Executive Directors and Alternates
The Executive Board (the Board) is responsible for conducting the IMF’s day-to-day business. 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 overseeing the IMF’s capacity development efforts.
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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: BO LI, Managing Director: KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA, Deputy Managing Director: KENJI OKAMURA, Deputy Managing Director: ANTOINETTE SAYEH.
Senior Officials
Senior officials as of April 30, 2024
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 Valdes
Director, Western Hemisphere Department
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
Information and Liaison Departments
Akihiko Yoshida
Director, Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
Robert Powell
Special Representative to the United Nations
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
James John
Director, Offices in Europe
Pablo Moreno
Director, Independent Evaluation Office
Ashlene van der Colff
Director, Office of Internal Audit
Derek Bills
Director, Investment Office
Romy Bowers
Director, Office of Risk Management
Camilla Andersen
Head, Office of Transformation Management
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Accountability
The IMF is accountable to its 190 member countries and has checks and balances, including audits and policy evaluations.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Environmental sustainability and philanthropic initiatives are the core of the IMF’s corporate social responsibility program.