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· Kenya’s Ceda Ogada is now the secretary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF); he will also hold the position of director of the Secretary’s department.
· Ogada worked across different aspects of the IMF’s work in various capacities helping to develop Fund policies and implementation guidance, and providing technical assistance to member countries.
Kenya’s Ceda Ogada is now the secretary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He will also hold the position of director of the Secretary’s department. Ceda Ogada will assume the office on September 1, 2020 and replaces Jianhai Lin who retires at the end of this month and has served as the Fund’s Secretary since March 2012.
Ceda Ogada has outstanding institutional knowledge, strategic and intellectual gravitas, and people leadership. Ogada joined the IMF in 1999 and rose through the ranks to become Deputy General Counsel in 2014. Ogada worked across different aspects of the IMF’s work in various capacities helping to develop Fund policies and implementation guidance, and providing technical assistance to member countries.
Important responsibilities Ceda Ogada handled in his 21 –years of service in the IMF included enhancing IMF’s policy to address governance and corruption issues; reforms in lending policy such as the establishment of the Flexible Credit Line (FCL) and the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) and reviews on surveillance policy and capacity development strategy. He was also involved in the work on euro area crisis countries during the global financial crisis.
Earlier to joining the IMF, Ogada worked at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He was also practicing law in the US, before joining the UN organizations and holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in history from Dartmouth College.
