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Headquarters–based staff of the Public Financial Management Divisions I and II of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF.*

*Some staff are missing from the picture.


PFMx — List of Contributors

This course was developed and delivered by a team from the Fiscal Affairs Department coordinated by Sophie Brown and supervised by Manal Fouad, and including:

Fiscal Affairs Department Instructors

Richard Allen — Visiting Scholar
Miguel Alves — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division I
Kyle Axberg — Research Assistant, Middle East and Central Asia Department, Division B
Katherine Baer — Division Chief, Revenue Administration Division I
Racheeda Boukezia — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division I
Sophie Brown — Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Martin Cerisola — Assistant Director, Middle East and Central Asia Department
Nour Chamseddine — Research Assistant, Public Financial Management Division II
Taz Chaponda — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division I
Teresa Curristine — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
John Damstra — Research Assistant, Tax Policy Division
Majdeline El Rayess — Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Manal Fouad — Division Chief, Public Financial Management Division II
Vitor Gaspar — Director, Fiscal Affairs Department
Fabien Gonguet — Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Jason Harris — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division I
Yasemin Hürcan — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division I
Bruno Imbert — Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Yugo Koshima — Economist, Public Financial Management Division I
Sébastien Leduc — Economist, Tax Policy Division
Lewis Murara — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Brian Olden — Deputy Division Chief, Public Financial Management Division I
Sailendra Pattanayak — Deputy Division Chief, Public Financial Management Division II
Eliko Pedastsaar — Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Sasha Pitrof — Staff Assistant, Public Financial Management Division II
Carla Quiroz Olivares — Staff Assistant, Public Financial Management Division II
Rohini Ray — Research Assistant, Public Financial Management Division I
Carolina Renteria — Division Chief, Public Financial Management Division I
Daniel Shrift — Staff Assistant, Public Financial Management Division II
Gwénaëlle Suc — Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Gerardo Una — Technical Advisor, Public Financial Management Division II
Caroline Van Rijckeghem — Consultant
Ha Vu — Economist, Public Financial Management Division II

Design and Technical team

The technical team was led by Natalia Malysheva under the supervision of Ellen Nedde, with instructional design provided by Jason Torres and video production managed by Catherine Timbers, and including:

Jennifer Azar — Staff Assistant, Online Learning Unit, ICD
Stuart Gordon — Director of Photography, Broadcast Audio Visual, CSF
Khishigsuren Jargalsaikhan — Research Assistant, Online Learning Unit, ICD
Milana Kuzmanovic — Research Assistant, Online Learning Unit, ICD
Joey Machak — Video Editor, Broadcast Audio Visual, CSF
Natalia Malysheva — Information Management Assistant, Online Learning Unit, ICD
Todd McCormick — Technical Director, Broadcast Audio Visual, CSF
Shayan Montazeri — Information Management Officer, Online Learning Unit, ICD
Jonny Moses — Central Operations Producer, Broadcast Audio Visual, CSF
Ken Nakagawa — Art Director, Multimedia Services, CSF
Ellen Nedde — Chief, Online Learning Unit, ICD
Gustavo Stisman — Research Assistant, Online Learning Unit, ICD
Dimitrije Tasic — Research Assistant, Online Learning Unit, ICD
Catherine Timbers — Video Producer, Broadcast Audio Visual, CSF
Jason Torres — Instructional Designer, Online Learning Unit, ICD

Other Fiscal Affairs Department Contributors

Virginia Alonso — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Sagé De Clerck — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division I
Laura Doherty — Technical Advisor, Public Financial Management Division II
Ruud De Mooij — Division Chief, Tax Policy Division
Raymond Eid — Staff Assistant, Public Financial Management Division I
Patricia Escalante — Contractual Assistant
Lesley Fischer — Resident Advisor, SARTTAC
David Gentry — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Torben Hansen — Deputy Division Chief, Public Financial Management Division I
Richard Hemming — Consultant
Guohua Huang — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Timothy Irwin — Consultant
Jimmy McHugh — Deputy Division Chief, Statistics Department
Jean Pierre Nguenang — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management II Division
Mario Pessoa — Deputy Division Chief, Public Financial Management Division II
Mariana Reyes Valbuena — Staff Assistant, Resource Management Division
Sandeep Saxena — Senior Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Magdalena Tomczynska — Consultant
Concha Verdugo Yepes — Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Drew Waddington — Project Assistant, Tax Administration Diagnostic and Assessment Tool
Benoit Wiest — Economist, Public Financial Management Division II
Qing Zhao — Project Assistant, Public Financial Management Division II