Charalambos Tsangarides

I am currently Chief of the North Africa Division at the International Monetary Fund and Mission Chief for Algeria, leading the IMF team’s policy dialogue and engagement with the Algerian authorities.

Prior to this, I was Mission Chief for Tanzania in the IMF’s African Department, where I led the IMF’s re-engagement with the authorities and the negotiation and implementation of significant IMF financial support, including programs to support economic reforms and Tanzania’s climate reform agenda. I was also 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, contributing to cross-country analytical work and chapters of the IMF’s Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa.

I also spent several years in the IMF’s Research Department, where I worked on issues related to the stability of the international monetary system—including exchange rate regimes, international reserves, and external imbalances—the relationship between income inequality and economic growth, and the application of Bayesian methods to model uncertainty. I also served as Risk Group Deputy, coordinating the biannual vulnerability assessment and related analytical improvements.

My work has been published in IMF publications and leading economics journals, including the Journal of Economic Growth, Economic Journal, IMF Economic Review, 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.