Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Wednesday announced her intention to appoint Indian national Krishna Srinivasan as director of the Asia and Pacific Department (APD).
Srinivasan's appointment as APD director will be effective from June 22, 2022. He will succeed Changyong Rhee, whose retirement from the Fund was announced on March 23, 2022.
Srinivasan has more than 27 years of experience at IMF, starting with the Economist Program in 1994. He is currently a deputy director in APD, where he oversees the department's surveillance work on a number of large and systemically important countries such as China and Korea, and smaller states in the Pacific such as Fiji and Vanuatu. He also oversees APD's work on key ASEAN countries, namely Malaysia and Singapore, as well-advanced economies, including Australia and New Zealand.
During the global financial crisis, while in the research department, Srinivasan led the Fund's work on the G20 including the preparation of analytical notes for the meetings of the G20 ministers and leaders.
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