Manmohan Singh

Senior Economist at International Monetary Fund

Manmohan Singh is a Senior Economist at the IMF in Washington DC. He continues to write extensively on topical issues including deleveraging in financial markets, rehypothecation of collateral, and counterparty risk in OTC derivatives. He was the first to identify the role cheapest-to-deliver bonds as a proxy for recovery value in CDS instruments. Manmohan has led workshops for the IMF on strategic asset allocation and regulatory proposals to official sector policy makers. His articles have regularly appeared in Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Euromoney, RISK, Journal of Investment Management, etc. His work experience covers several countries including U.K., U.S., India, Japan,Hungary, Poland, the Gulf countries and more recently peripheral Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a MBA from Univ. Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). He received his B.S. (magna cum laude) from Allegheny College, Pennsylvania. He was previously with ABN Amro Bank's emerging market syndicate team (Amsterdam/London).