Tim Willems

Economist in the International Monetary Funds

Tim Willems is an economist in the IMF’s Debt Policy division, focusing on questions of debt sustainability and debt restructuring. At the IMF, he has worked on a variety of countries, including Cote d’Ivoire, Tunisia, and now Ukraine. Previously, he was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and a member of the Centre for Macroeconomics at the London School of Economics. He holds degrees from Tilburg University and University College London and obtained his PhD in Economics from the Tinbergen Institute at the University of Amsterdam.

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The Ultimate Leadership accelerator

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