Jim Brumby

Jim Brumby is Sector Manager in Public Sector & Governance at the World Bank. He has been engaged on public management reform at state, national and international levels for about twenty-seven years. Prior to joining the Bank, he spent three years as Head of the IMF internal Budget Reform Division, and five years in IMF Fiscal Affairs Department working on public expenditure management, providing technical assistance to countries, including China, Indonesia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Malawi, Ghana and Nigeria. He has also contributed to fiscal transparency reports on Italy, Malawi and the USA, and played a leading role in assessing PEM systems in HIPCs. Prior to joining the Fund, he was in charge of the OECD program on budgeting and management run by the Public Management Service (PUMA).