Published on December 3, 2024 – Updated on December 20, 2024

The Université Clermont Auvergne is a recruitment pool for the International Monetary Fund.

The CERDI and the School of Economics are very happy to welcome economists and representatives from the IMF's Human Resources Department to Clermont-Ferrand each year.

On November 20, 2024, Eva Dabla-Norris, Assistant Director in the Fiscal Affairs Department and Mohammed Metwally, Senior Program Manager (Economist Program), were in Clermont-Ferrand to meet the students, PhD students and faculties in Economics. They introduced the internship program to students from the Ecole d'Economie and PhD candidates from the CERDI, a joint research unit of the Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, and IRD. The team also interviewed our PhD candidates who submitted applications for the 2025 Economist recruitment program.

The skills acquired at Université Clermont Auvergne within the School and the laboratory, particularly in mathematics and econometrics, are highly sought by international institutions. Every year, doctoral students from CERDI complete the demanding selection process for the internship program and move to Washington to work alongside permanent economists on macroeconomic issues such as fiscal policy, monetary policy, or debt policy.

Furthermore, our researchers regularly conduct expert missions for the institution, particularly on issues related to public finance in developing countries. Most of these reports are confidential and the property of the finance ministers of the countries concerned. However, some are published with the agreement of the stakeholders. For example, Grégoire Rota-Graziosi led a mission in February 2024 establishing the diagnosis of fiscal policy in Mauritania, along with Thomas Benninger (IMF), Jean-François Brun (MCF UCA-CERDI), Emilie Caldeira (MCF UCA-CERDI), and Fayçal Sawadogo (UCA-CERDI Doctor, Economist at the IMF).

See the document on the IMF eLibrary.