What's New
June 8, 2023
Thursday, June 8th at 12:00 PM EST, the IEO Seminar Series will host Daron Acemoglu (MIT) and Gary Marcus (NYU) on Artificial Intelligence's Economic, Social and Trade Impacts. These two world experts will talk about whether AI can be made safe and humanity-positive as well as the role of governments and international organizations like the IMF in fostering a mission-oriented, well-regulated and surveilled AI industry. When it's time, join the Webex meeting here: Join Meeting.
May 16, 2023
The IEO Seminar Series hosted Robert H. Topel (University of Chicago) and Marc Lipsitch (Harvard University) on Future Pandemic Risk and the Role of Policy. These two eminent scholars talked about reform strategies to make pandemics more unlikely in the future, and discussed ways to deal with them more efficiently through the design of robust economic policies, were they to occur again. They also reflected on how the IMF can help manage globally macro-relevant pandemic threats.
April 10, 2023
The IEO published its Spring 2023 Dialogue Newsletter.
April 10, 2023
The IEO posted its latest Progress Report to the IMFC.

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The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) was established in 2001 to conduct independent and objective evaluations of Fund policies and activities. Under its Terms of Reference, it is fully independent from the Management of the IMF and operates at arm's length from the Board of Executive Directors.

our mandate

The IEO's mission is to:

Enhance the learning culture within the Fund, strengthen the Fund's external credibility, and support Institutional governance and oversight. 

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IEO Team

Pablo Moreno
Director
Vivek Arora
Deputy Director and Senior Budget Manager
Cyrus Rustomjee
Assistant Director and Senior Personnel Manager
Nicoletta Batini
Lead Evaluator
Miguel de Las Casas
Lead Evaluator and Alternate Senior Personnel Manager
Yasemin Bal Gündüz
Senior Economist
Anthony De Lannoy
Senior Economist
Jeremie Cohen-Setton
Economist
Natalia Kryg
Economist
Joshua Wojnilower
Economist and Budget Officer
Jiakun Li
Research Officer
Sriram Balasubramanian
Senior Research Officer
Lukasz Jannils
Research Officer and Budget Officer
Elena Pinillos
Projects Officer
Arun Bhatnagar
Senior Admin Assistant
Andrea Nicole Tumbaco
Staff Assistant

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