Published on August 21, 2024 – Updated on August 21, 2024

The team is glad to welcome back Tidiane Kinda, IMF Mission Chief for Nepal and Deputy Division Chief, as a research fellow.


Tidiane Kinda
IMF, CERDI

Tidiane Kinda, Mission Chief for Nepal and Deputy Division Chief in the Asia and Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund, joins the CERDI as a research fellow.

Indeed, he has significant experience at the IMF, where he has held positions since joining in 2009. Previously, he led several teams on the Maldives, Palau, and Singapore ; served as an Assistant to the Director of the Asia and Pacific Department ; and was Senior Desk on Indonesia. He also worked in the African Department and Fiscal Affairs Department covering advanced, emerging, and low-income countries (Euro Area, Canada, Croatia, Peru, Moldova, and Chad). Before joining the IMF, he worked at the World Bank and the Central Bank of West African States.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne and was a Research Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University.

Tidiane Kinda is a macroeconomist with his research focusing on issues including fiscal policy, monetary policy, inequality and private sector development. He has published widely in high-impact journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, the IMF Economic Review, and Word Development. He also co-edited the IMF book "Realizing Indonesia's Economic Potential" (2018).

He has (co)authored numerous research articles published in peer-reviewed journals. During and after his PhD in economics, Tidiane Kinda has continued working with our researchers to address critical issues in the field of development economics. He co-wrote with Jean-Louis Combes and Patrick Plane a highly-cited paper, "Capital flows, exchange rate flexibility, and the real exchange rate", in the Journal of Macroeconomics. He also co-authored with Patrick Plane et Marie-Ange Varoudakis (CNRS, CERDI) the paper "Firm productivity and investment climate in developing countries: how does Middle East and North Africa manufacturing perform?" published in the Developing Economies. He just started a new research project on digitalization and firms' productivity.

His expertise on macroeconomic issues and development economics will enrich our research projects. Moreover, his long experience at the IMF will be precious and helpful for our young researchers who want to join international organizations.