Africa Training Institute Staff

 

Abdoul Aziz Wane

Director of the Africa Training Institute and AFRITAC South.
Mr. Wane joined the IMF in 2001 after working as lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Saint-Louis and University of Dakar, respectively. In the IMF, he held mission chief positions for the Republic of Congo and Guinea, resident representative positions in Mali and Guinea, and worked in the Fiscal Affairs and the Strategy, Policy and Review Departments. He holds a doctorate in economics.
     
 

Carlos de Resende

Deputy Director at the Africa Training Institute.

Mr. Carlos de Resende, a Brazilian-Canadian citizen, is Deputy Director at the Africa Training Institute (ATI) since September 2020. Prior to joining ATI, he has worked at the IMF as senior desk economist for Angola at the African Department (AFR);
 providing training and technical assistance to member countries in Sub-Saharan Africa at the Institute for Capacity Development (ICD); evaluating Fund policies and operations at the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO); and as advisor to the Executive Director for Canada, Ireland, and the Caribbean at the IMF Executive Board. He also worked for several years at the Bank of Canada, most recently as Economic Modeling Advisor; as senior economist at the Central Bank of Brazil; and taught Economics and Econometrics at universities in Brazil and Canada. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Université de Montréal, Canada.
 

Charline Ramspacher

Lecturer at the Africa Training Institute

Before joining the Institute in September 2016, Charline Ramspacher was a senior policy advisor at the Central Bank of Luxembourg. In this role she was a member of various Eurosystem committees on market infrastructures and payment systems. There she contributed to the successful reorganization of collateral practices among European national central banks. Charline joined the Central Bank of Luxembourg in 2010 from Clearstream 
Banking Luxembourg, an International central security depository, where she had held the position of assistant vice president in network management. Prior to this, Charline held various front office positions at the Goldman Sachs Group in the US and London. She holds an MBA and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, both from Temple University in the US.
 

Ian James Nield

Lecturer at the Africa Training Institute.

Prior to joining ATI in October 2016 Ian Nield was the Monetary Operations Advisor with the IMF’s Bangkok-based Technical Assistance Office for Lao PDR and Myanmar. Ian worked extensively in Myanmar with both the central bank and the Ministry of Finance and Planning across the broad range of functions covered by Monetary Operations. In Lao he worked with the authorities on a number of topics and delivered a series of courses with
the common theme of monetary operations. Ian has worked “in and around” financial stability for some 20 years, primarily taking a pragmatic approach to solve problems. In his professional life he has been a research scientist, university lecturer, fund manager, stock broker, and during 1998-2013 a senior official with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Ian studied at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and at Cranfield University in England. He read Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics at Waikato where he was awarded an MSc (Hons) degree. At Cranfield he read Physics for his PhD. Ian is married with four children and has a wide range of interests outside the office.
   
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