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NORBERT FUNKE Director |
Norbert Funke is the Director of the IMF Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia Regional Capacity Development Center (CCAMTAC), which was launched in February 2021. He brings significant experience in IMF capacity development, surveillance and program work. He was Assistant Director / Division Chief of the IMF Institute for Capacity Development (ICD), where he headed the African Division and later the Asian Division. In 2012–16 he was Director of the Joint Vienna Institute (JVI). Prior to this, he served as mission chief and country economist for several middle- and low-income countries in the African Department, where he also led regional surveillance and worked as a country economist. Before joining the IMF in 2000, Norbert worked at McKinsey & Company, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. A German national, he holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of Cologne.
