Martin Stuermer

I am a Senior Economist in the African Department of the International Monetary Fund. My research interests are macroeconomics with a focus on energy, commodities, and natural resources as well as growth and development. I currently serve as a Senior Economist on the South Africa team. Before, I was a Senior economist on the Burkina Faso team. From 2021 to 2024, I worked in the Commodities Unit of the Fund's Research Department, where I co-led a World Economic Outlook Chapter and contributed to a one-off mission to Guinea among others. I worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 2014 to 2021. I hold master's level degrees from Sciences Po Paris and Free University Berlin, and a PhD in economics from the University of Bonn, Germany. 

News:

• Our paper on Geoeconomic Fragmentation and Commodity Markets (with Jorge Alvarez, Mehdi Benatiya Andaloussi, Chiara Maggi, Alexandre Sollaci and Petia Topalova) just got published in the Journal of International Money and Finance. Here are the related IMF Blog, Chapter in the IMF World Economic Outlook, Atlantic Council Panel Discussion and Financial Times Editorial.

• I have made it into the Top 8 percent most cited economists based on the RePEC ranking for the last 10 years. 

• We just published a new IMF Staff Report on Burkina Faso. 

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