Samba Mbaye

Economist, IMF Fiscal Affairs Department at International Monetary Fund

Samba Mbaye is an economist in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, where he is part of the team in charge of preparing the Fiscal Monitor. He also currently works as fiscal economist on the IMF Greece team. Prior to joining the Fund as part of the Economist Program, he worked in the Research Department of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) and briefly taught at the CERDI, University of Auvergne in France. His main research interests are on fiscal institutions and debt sustainability, fiscal-financial interlinkages, and development issues.