Dr. Reza Kibria

Dr. Reza Kibria has over three decades’ experience in macroeconomic management and fiscal policy issues working in international agencies, governments and universities. He obtained a BA (First Class Honours in Politics, Philosophy and Economics) from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, an M.A. from Queen’s University (Canada), and an MPhil (Economics) and DPhil (Economics) from Oxford University. He began his career at the IMF in Washington DC (1984-93), working on a range of countries including Romania, Portugal, Indonesia, Burma, Singapore, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea and Thailand. After leaving the Fund he taught at Dhaka University and did consulting for the World Bank, United Nations and the Asian Development Bank.

was Lead Advisor and Coordinating Author for the World Bank report on governance in Bangladesh, “Government That Works” (1996). He is also one of the authors (with I. Islam and M. Hossain) of “South Asian Economic Development: Transformation, Challenges and Opportunities”, (Routledge 1999). He served as Macroeconomic Advisor to the Treasury Department of Papua New Guinea (1996-2000), with responsibility for the macroeconomic framework and policy coordination. He was Principal Economist for PDP Australia (2000-2008), leading technical assistance teams and managing projects.

was also Adjunct Professor at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Kibria was Macro Fiscal Advisor, IMF East Africa Regional Technical Assistance Center in Dar es Salaam from 2009 to 2011, providing technical assistance to the Ministries of Finance and Central Banks of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

In recent years he has worked on projects in India (Kerala-Supporting Fiscal Reforms), China (Designing Technical Assistance Programs for the Ministry of Finance and the State Authority of Taxation), the U.A.E (Program Budgeting), Kuwait (Budget Reforms), Tanzania (National Employment Creation Program), Indonesia (Local Government Finances) and most recently, Bangladesh (IFMIS – Deepening MTBF –Strengthening Public Expenditure Management Program SPEMP, Ministry of Finance). Most recently he has been IMF Macro Fiscal Advisor, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Cambodia (2016-18).