Charalambos Tsangarides

I am currently an Advisor in the IMF’s African Department and Mission Chief for Tanzania, leading the IMF team's engagement with Tanzania.

Prior to this, I was Mission Chief for Eritrea, Madagascar, and Comoros, and Deputy Mission Chief for Nigeria. In previous roles in the IMF’s African Department, I worked on several countries and regional issues in sub-Saharan Africa—including the CFA Franc zone countries—contributing to cross-country analytical work and policy analysis in the region and leading chapters for the SSA Regional Economic Outlook. 

I also spent several years in IMF’s Research Department where I coordinated the department’s vulnerability analysis for advanced and emerging market countries, and worked on issues related to the stability of the international monetary system—including exchange rate regimes, exchange rate assessments, international reserves, and external imbalances—the nexus between income inequality and economic growth, and the application of Bayesian methods to model uncertainty. 

My work has been published in general interest and field journals in Economics such as the Journal of Economic Growth, Economic Journal, IMF Economic Review, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Econometric Reviews, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of International Money and Finance. 

Before joining the IMF, I held positions at the World Bank’s African Department, Eastern and Central Asia Department, and the Development Economics Research Group. I have also taught econometrics at Johns Hopkins University (SAIS).