Sixth Annual Sovereign Debt Restructuring Conference: Risks in a High-Interest Rate & Strong US Dollar Environment – Session III

VIDEO March 5, 2023

Speaker / Author

Thordur Jonasson

Deputy Division Chief, Debt Capital Markets Division, International Monetary Fund

Mr. Thor Jonasson is a Deputy Division Chief in the Debt Capital Markets Division in the IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Prior to joining the IMF, he worked for the World Bank on developing public and private debt markets and participating in the Financial Sector Assessment Program. He has published on debt management, debt policy and capital market development. ... Read More

James Knight

Deputy Division Chief, Institute Training Program, International Monetary Fund

James Knight is Deputy Division Chief in the Institute for Capacity Development’s Institute Training Program division, where he oversees the IMF’s Online Learning program. He previously worked in the  Monetary and Capital Markets department in the Debt Capital Markets division. Prior to joining the IMF in 2017, he was Head of Investor Research at the UK Debt Management Office (DMO), where he worked for over 15 years in policy and research. ... Read More

Tamon Asonuma

Economist in the Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund

Tamon Asonuma is an Economist in the Strategy Policy and Review Department of the IMF. Since joining the IMF on September 2010, he has spent most of times in Research Department and Strategy Policy and Review Department. During his time in the Strategy Review and Policy Department, he has contributed to series of the IMF Policy Papers on sovereign debt restructurings and IMF lending, and sovereign-bank linkages, and involving in many debt restructuring cases (Greece, Myanmar, Belize, Cyprus, Grenada) as an expert. In Research Department, he has worked on research papers on costs of sovereign debt restructurings, fiscal policy, sovereign ... Read More