Benedicte Vibe Christensen
"All People and things are interdependent.
The world has become so small that no
nation can solve its problems alone, in
isolation from others. That is why I believe
we must all cultivate a sense of
responsibility..." - Dalai Lama
Benedicte Vibe Christensen is a macroeconomist and former Deputy Director in the International Monetary Fund. Previously, she worked for the Danish central bank (Danmarks Nationalbank) and as lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. This has provided her with extensive experience in analyzing different economic problems in individual economies. She has advised governments on policy responses to exogenous or domestic economic problems, presenting trade-offs between policy options, and negotiated economic programs in different regions of the world, including in Africa, Asia, and Europe. She has also given many presentations on regional or global economic issues.
Highlights in Benedicte Vibe Christensen’s career included working on the first IMF team on the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia in the aftermath of the breakdown of the former Soviet Union, helping create the IMF’s concessional lending facility with a focus on growth and poverty reduction, developing the IMF’s first policy on governance issues in programs, financial operations for low-income countries, as well as developing an investment strategy for trust funds, and lastly, as Head of the Policy Wing in the African Department, analyzing economic problems in sub-Saharan Africa.
More recently, she has written a number of papers on the impact of the global financial crisis on emerging and frontier market economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, the effectiveness of monetary policy in Africa, and the macroeconomic effects of China’s involvement in Africa and given lectures on these issues. For more information, click on publications.
Highlights in Benedicte Vibe Christensen’s career included working on the first IMF team on the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia in the aftermath of the breakdown of the former Soviet Union, helping create the IMF’s concessional lending facility with a focus on growth and poverty reduction, developing the IMF’s first policy on governance issues in programs, financial operations for low-income countries, as well as developing an investment strategy for trust funds, and lastly, as Head of the Policy Wing in the African Department, analyzing economic problems in sub-Saharan Africa.
More recently, she has written a number of papers on the impact of the global financial crisis on emerging and frontier market economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, the effectiveness of monetary policy in Africa, and the macroeconomic effects of China’s involvement in Africa and given lectures on these issues. For more information, click on publications.