STI Staff Members Bio
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Paul Cashin Mr. Paul Cashin is appointed Director of the IMF – Singapore Regional Training Institute in January 2024. He had been Assistant Director in the Macro-Modeling and Monetary Division of the IMF’s Institute for Capacity Development since September 2020. Since joining the Fund in 1993, Mr. Cashin had worked in the IMF’s Research Department, on issues related to developing countries and commodity markets; in the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Department, where he was Chief of the Caribbean Division and mission chief to the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; in the Middle East and Central Asia Department, where he was Chief of the Regional Studies Division and mission chief to Jordan; and in the Asia-Pacific Department, where he was Chief of the South Asia Division and mission chief to India (2013-2017) and Chief of the Japan Division and mission chief to Japan (2017-2020). Mr. Cashin has published widely in several fields of economics, including macroeconomic modeling, commodity prices and exchange rates, international economics, and economic development. Mr. Cashin obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University, and holds an M.Agr.Sc. in Agricultural Economics and Bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Melbourne in Australia.
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Ales Bulir Mr. Ales Bulir (Aleš Bulíř) joined the IMF – Singapore Regional Training Institute (STI) as Deputy Director in September 2020. Prior to joining STI, he was Deputy Division Chief in the IMF Research Department and Institute for Capacity Development. He joined the IMF in 1993 and worked in the European, Monetary and Exchange Affairs, African, Policy Development and Review, Research and Institute for Capacity Development Departments. His graduate degrees are from the London School of Economics and Prague University of Economics. Prior to joining the Fund, he taught economics in Prague and worked at the Czech National Bank. His research interests include the role of communication in monetary policy, macroeconomic modeling, and the role of development aid. |
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Tok Yoke Wang Ms. Tok Yoke Wang has over two decades of experience in central banking, spanning macroeconomics research, financial stability analysis and international relations. She has worked at the IMF as a Senior Advisor to the Board, at the Toronto Centre as Program Director, at the World Gold Council as Director and at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). At the MAS, she held various senior positions, including as Principal Economist in the International Economies Division as well as in the Financial Surveillance Division and the External Department. Yoke Wang holds a Masters Degree in Economics from Cambridge University and a First Class Honours Degree in Economics from the National University of Singapore. |
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Iris Claus Ms. Iris Claus joined the IMF – Singapore Regional Training Institute in July 2022. She previously held economic advisory, policy, and research positions at the IMF – Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Center, the Asian Development Bank, the New Zealand Inland Revenue, the New Zealand Treasury, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and the Bank of Canada. Iris is Honorary Professor at the University of Waikato, a member of the Asian Economic Panel, and on the editorial board of Asian Economic Papers. Her current research interests are in economic policy and sustainable wellbeing. Iris holds a PhD in economics from Victoria University of Wellington. |
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Shinichi Nakabayashi Mr. Shinichi Nakabayashi is from Japan and a Long-Term Expert on Macroeconomics at the IMF – Singapore Regional Training Institute (STI). He has a long and global career in public policy including at the Japanese Ministry of Finance in Tokyo, the OECD in Paris, Asia and Pacific Department of the IMF in Washington, D.C., the University of Tokyo as Professor of International Finance, the STI as International Consultant Economist from 2011 to 2015, Asian Development Bank Institute as the Director from 2015, and EBRD in London from 2018 to 2022 as the Board Director for Japan. He published extensively both in Japanese and English including a book in Japanese that analyzed the world economy from the perspective of international currencies and a sequel to the book on international finance titled “The Economics of G20”. |
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Noam Gruber Mr. Noam Gruber joined the IMF – Singapore Regional Training Institute (STI) in February 2023. Prior to that, he taught macroeconomics and international finance at the National School of Development at Peking University. From 2017 to 2021 Noam was a Senior Economist and Head of Research at the National Economic Council of Israel (Prime Minister’s Office), where he worked on policy in the fields of advanced payment systems, the tech sector, taxation policy, and economic relations with China, as well as conducted research and led pilot design and impact assessment. Prior to that Noam was a Senior Researcher at two Israeli policy think tanks – Taub and Shoresh, before which he taught macroeconomics at Dartmouth College. Noam’s current research interests are causality between growth and saving, tech sector FDI spillovers, the Chinese economy and advanced payment systems. Noam holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan. |
