STI Staff Members Bio


 

Paul Cashin
Director

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.