Meeting Schedules

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.

Hae Ryun Kim currently serves as Deputy Director General of the Economic Census Division at the Ministry of Data and Statistics of Korea. She has extensive experience in official statistic statistical innovation, and international cooperation. She previously served as Director of the Big Data & Statistics Division. At the Statistical Research Institute, she conducted research on the development and improvement of economic and social statistics and sustainable development goals’ indicators, as well as analyses of socioeconomic issues, including inequality and poverty. Ms. Kim has also played active roles in international statistical cooperation. From 2023 to 2024, she served as chair of the IMF’s Data for Decisions (D4D) Fund Steering Committee. She also served as chair of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission’s for Asia and the Pacific expert group on disaster-related statistics. In addition, she worked as a senior policy analyst at the OECD Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity and the OECD Statistics and Data Directorate. She was seconded to Statistics Netherlands from 2017 to 2018 and to the International Renewable Energy Agency from 2010 to 2012. Ms. Kim holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in Economics from Tokyo International University in Japan and a bachelor’s degree in Statistics from Busan National University in Korea.

Williamina Hubert was appointed Assistant Governor of the Monetary and Economic Policy Group at the Bank of Papua New Guinea in March 2025, bringing over twenty years of expertise in economic research and central banking policy. She holds a master’s degree in international and development economics from the Australian National University and previously served as the manager of the Bank's inflation and GDP modelling and forecasting unit. Currently, Ms. Hubert is leading a strategic organizational restructuring within the group, to establish a dedicated Statistics Department. Her strategic focus centers on elevating data governance by optimizing the collection, storage, and dissemination of economic statistics through the transition from legacy manual processes to automated workflows.

Zeno Ronald Abenoja is a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas—BSP), responsible for the monetary and economics sector. He handles monetary policy formulation, economic research, statistical operations, foreign exchange regulations, international cooperation, and domestic credit operations. Prior to his appointment, he served as Assistant Governor of the Monetary Policy Sub-Sector. He also previously led the Department of Economic Research and Economic and Financial Learning Center. Mr. Abenoja also previously served as Chief Economic Counselor at the Department of Finance. He oversaw the Office of the Chief Economist, which is responsible for formulating the macroeconomic-fiscal framework and recommending the fiscal policies at the department. He worked extensively on the formulation of the Medium-Term Fiscal Framework. He also served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director for the Southeast Asia Constituency at the International Monetary Fund, where he facilitated the Article IV reviews of the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos.

Paul Austin is Chief of the Resource Management Division in the IMF’s Statistics Department, where he helps lead the department’s capacity development program, resource allocation, budget planning, and delivery of technical assistance and training to member countries. Mr. Austin brings more than 25 years of IMF experience in macroeconomic statistics, including external sector statistics, national accounts, data standards, and capacity development program management. He has served as Deputy Division Chief in two divisions, and as a statistics advisor in two IMF regional capacity development centers CARTAC and METAC. His work has supported countries across regions, including fragile and conflict-affected states and small developing states. He plays an important role in overseeing the execution of flagship statistical capacity development funding vehicle, the Data for Decisions (D4D) Fund. He has also contributed to several workstreams and initiatives, including the recent update of the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework, and to the 2024 Capacity Development Strategic Review. Mr. Austin holds an M.Phil. in international development from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Guyana.