How many economists are there in the IMF?

The International Monetary Fund has a large number of excellent and pragmatic economists, with a total number of not less than 350, but the more specific figures cannot be quantified.

The IMF needs high-end economic talents from all over the world, and its team of economists consists of two aspects. One is a professional economist who serves the IMF. The International Monetary Fund has 16 functional departments and 2 permanent overseas business institutions. These economists are responsible for the operation and business activities of 18 functional departments or overseas institutions. Second, the IMF adopts the board of directors as the highest decision-making body of the IMF. The board of directors consists of 1 directors and 1 deputy directors from all member countries, and the directors are generally finance ministers or central bank governors from 188 member countries. It can be said that the finance ministers or central bank governors of member countries, including those who serve as deputy directors of the IMF, are proficient in the economy.

In fact, because the macro situation of every country is constantly changing, the variables of every economy are interrelated and influenced each other, and every industry is interlocking. A change in one variable may trigger a series of other changes, affecting all aspects of the whole economy. In addition, there is also a game between countries within the International Monetary Fund. Serving the ministries of finance and central banks of various countries, every country will invest a lot of economic talents to pay attention to and learn. Economists who participate in IMF research are even more unable to make accurate statistics.

In addition, the IMF recruits all kinds of economic and financial talents from all over the world all the year round, so the number of economists it has is also a variable. Considering the regional distribution of talent recruitment, in recent years, the IMF has not only recruited talents from traditional higher education developed areas such as North America and Europe, but also paid more attention to recruiting talents from emerging market countries and recruited a large number of talents. For example, the number of employees in China has risen sharply in recent years, from less than 10 in the early 1990s to about 65,438+050 today.