Anoop Singh named IMF director Asia Pacific

02 May 2008

Mumbai: Anoop Singh, a former special advisor to the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has been named director-Asia Pacific of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Aup Singh, who was advisor to Manmohan Singh when he was governor of the RBI, is currently director of the IMF`s Western Hemisphere Department. He has also served as special advisor to another RBI governor, I G Patel.

Anup Singh has also worked as senior economic advisor to the vice president, Asia region, the World Bank; and was sometime lecturer in economics at Bombay University.

He will take over as director of Asia Pacific Department as part of the 185-member lending organisation`s `refocusing effort`, managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said.

At the IMF,  Anup Singh has served as  director of special operations in the office of the managing director, deputy director of the Asia and Pacific Department, senior advisor of the Policy Development and Review Department, assistant director of the European Department, and as IMF resident representative in Sri Lanka.

A post-graduate from Cambridge, and the London School of Economics, Anup Singh has worked and written on surveillance, and crisis management issues, helping to shape IMF-supported programmes in emerging markets and developing countries in South and South-East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, IMF said in a release.