Meetings Calendar

Deputy Director, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF

Franck Bousquet is deputy director of the IMF’s Institute for Capacity Development, overseeing the IMF’s global partnerships. Previously, he was the deputy director coordinating the IMF’s engagement with fragile and conflict-affected states, leading the preparation of the related strategy, approved by the Executive Board in March 2022. Before joining the IMF, he was the senior director of the World Bank’s Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group. Mr. Bousquet has also several years of leadership experience in low- and middle- income countries in Africa and the Middle East, including significant work on resilience and reconstruction issues. He led an international effort providing for the first-time concessional financing to middle-income countries facing refugee crises. He previously held roles in the public and private sectors, focused on sustainable development, finance and capital markets. He holds an MBA with a specialization in finance from Columbia Business School and a graduate diploma in engineering from France.

Deputy Chief of Macro-Modeling and Monetary Division, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF

Pau Rabanal is the Deputy Chief of the Macro-Modeling and Monetary Division at the IMF’s Institute for Capacity Development since January 2025. Previously, he was Deputy Division Chief in the Western Hemisphere Department of the IMF, and mission chief for Uruguay. Prior to this appointment, he worked in the Research Department, as a senior economist in the Macro-Financial Division, and later as a Deputy Division Chief in the Open Economy Macroeconomics Division. In that capacity, he was one of the main authors of the External Sector Report between 2018 and 2022. Mr. Rabanal joined the IMF in 2002 and has also worked in the Monetary and Capital Markets and Middle East and Central Asia departments of the IMF. He also worked in the Research Department of Caixabank in Barcelona between 2002 and 2006. Mr. Rabanal holds a B.A in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), an M.Sc. in Economics from the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) in Madrid, Spain, and a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. His research interests include monetary policy, macro-prudential policies, open economy macroeconomics and the analysis of external vulnerabilities.

Capacity Development Officer, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF

Amy Lee is a Capacity Development Officer at the IMF’s Institute for Capacity Development, where she designs learning and training experiences for different audiences. Her experience in education spans the globe: she was a Fulbright fellowship in Macau, S.A.R., worked as a fourth-grade teacher in the U.S., and contributed to educational research projects in Ghana and South Africa. Prior to joining the IMF, she served as a program officer at Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, where she managed a global health eLearning platform and led knowledge management and storytelling capacity building initiatives. Amy holds a M.S.Ed in International Educational Development from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Scranton.

Advisor to the Executive Director for Asia-Pacific, IMF

Sandy Iro is an Advisor to the IMF’s Executive Director, representing Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands countries in the Asia Pacific Constituency. She provides policy advice on monetary, fiscal, external, and financial sector issues and supports engagements between the IMF and country authorities. Before joining the Fund, Ms. Iro served as Chief Manager for the Economics, Research and Statistics Department at the Central Bank of Solomon Islands, where she provided strategic leadership in planning and execution, led and provided technical oversight on macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, monetary policy formulation and advice, economic research, and statistics. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Finance and Treasury, contributing to fiscal policy development and tax reform initiatives. Ms. Iro holds a master’s degree in economic policy from the Australian National University, and a Bachelor of Commerce in economics and information systems from the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.

Senior Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Japan

Hideaki Imamura is Senior Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Japan, responsible for multilateral policy coordination including G20, G7 and the IMF and bilateral cooperation with advanced economies. Since his joining the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Imamura has taken charge of policy making mostly in the international domain. His past career at the Ministry extended to a variety of dimensions, including the IMF/MDBs, G20/G7, foreign exchange, climate and environment finance, economic security, digital currencies, and fiscal policy. His most recent assignments were Executive Director for Japan at the World Bank Group and Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for Asian financial cooperation. Mr. Imamura also has rich experiences in international organizations as staff. He was a country mission chief for selected South Asian countries at the Asian Development Bank for four years; and took charge of financial resource mobilization at for the International Monetary Fund for five years. Mr. Imamura graduated from the University of Tokyo and earned MA in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan.