S. Ali Abbas is currently serving as Advisor in the Middle East and Central Asia Department, heading the International Monetary Fund team for Jordan. Prior to this, he was Deputy Chief of the Debt Policy Division in the Strategy and Policy Review Department of the IMF. He has led key reforms to the Fund's lending and crisis resolution frameworks; served as Fund liaison to the Paris Club; and has been closely involved in several exceptional access Fund-supported programs, including Ireland 2010, Ukraine 2015, and Argentina 2018. He has published on fiscal policy, government financing, and sovereign debt crises, and helped compile widely-used databases on the level, dynamics, and composition of public debt.
