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David Owen

David Owen is Deputy Director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department, where he specializes in the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Since joining the IMF in 1994, David has worked on a number of transition and emerging market countries, including heading teams on Azerbaijan, Brazil, Georgia, Moldova, and Russia. He also worked at the UK Treasury for 14 years before joining the IMF, where he focused on macroeconomic forecasting, research, and policy advice on the UK and other advanced economies.

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Thomas Grennes is a professor of economics at the North Carolina State University and a former visiting faculty member at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. His research has dealt with various aspects of international economics, including open economy macroeconomics, international finance, and international trade in agricultural products. Recent research topics have included macroeconomic aspects of the Great Moderation, offshore outsourcing, sovereign wealth funds, and the relationship between government debt and economic growth. Earlier work dealt with emerging market issues in the Baltic countries and Russia and trade and macro policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic history topics include the Columbian Exchange of plants and animals, the effects on food markets of introducing mechanical refrigeration, and the integration of Tsarist Russia into the world grain market. When he is not involved in economics, he enjoys mountain hiking.

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