ILO Research Department Seminar

What’s it like to work on a Fragile State

Presenter: Ralph Chami IMF; Chair: Sangheon Lee RESEARCH; Discussant: Michela Esposito RESEARCH

Ralph Chami is currently Assistant Director of the Institute for Capacity Development, the IMF’s training branch. Prior to his current responsibilities he was the IMF’s Division Chief in the Middle East and Central Asia Department and Chief of the Middle Eastern Division of the IMF Institute. He joined the IMF in 1999. From 1991–1999, he was on the faculty of Finance in the Department of Finance, University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He also served as a consultant to the World Bank, and to the private sector in the US. He has a BS from the American University of Beirut, an MBA in Finance and Statistics from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University.