Benedicte Vibe Christensen is a macroeconomist and a former Deputy Director in the International Monetary Fund, where she has worked for nearly 30 years. She contributed to the IMF’s policy work, particularly as it related to low-income countries and fragile states. She helped design the IMF’s concessional lending facility with a focus on growth and poverty reduction and developed the IMF’s first policy on governance issues in IMF-supported programs. As part of economic program missions, she helped advise governments on policy responses to exogenous or domestic economic events, including in Africa, Asia, and Europe. She has also given many presentations on regional or global economic issues. In her country work, she was part of the first missions to the former Soviet Union, including Russia.

More recently, she has been a member of Executive Boards in two financial companies in Denmark and has written papers for international bodies on economic problems faced by African countries, such as Financial integration in Africa: implications for monetary policy and financial stability and China’s role in Africa. She was part of an independent evaluation of the IMF’s engagement with sub-Saharan African countries during the pandemic.