Sixth Annual Sovereign Debt Restructuring Conference: Risks in a High-Interest Rate & Strong US Dollar Environment – Session III
VIDEO March 5, 2023Speaker / Author
Thordur Jonasson
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
James Knight is a Senior Financial Sector Expert in the Debt Capital Markets division, Monetary and Capital Markets department, of the IMF. 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. A specialist in fixed income, including inflation-indexed bonds and Islamic finance, James is a graduate of the University of Bath with a BSc in Economics & Politics. In 2006 he received an MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a CFA Charterholder and a ... Read More
Tamon Asonuma
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