IMF’s Regional Capacity Development Centers in Asia and the Pacific<Contact Information>

PFTAC

Prior to the appointment of David Kloeden as Coordinator of Pacific Technical AssistanceCentre (PFTAC), from 2014 till early 2017 he headed Caribbean Regional TechnicalAssistance Centre, the equivalent of PFTAC in the Caribbean. With 20+ years as an IMF
tax administration specialist, he has extensive Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM)
experience. He most recently led the Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool –TADAT project, and as Deputy Chief in the Fiscal Affairs Department he managed the TaxPolicy and Administration Topical Trust Fund to support DRM efforts in low incomecountries. Following Australian government service, between 1992 and 2002 he was aDavid Anthony Kloeden resident IMF tax advisor in Sri Lanka, Albania, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, assisting in adiverse range of reforms. He is a CPA, has an undergraduate degree in information
Project Coordinator
technology and post graduate degrees respectively in financial management, tax law, andPFTAC
economics.

SARTTACSukhwinder SinghDirector
SARTTAC

STI

Sukhwinder Singh is the Director of the South Asia Regional Training and Technical
Assistance Center (SARTTAC). He has worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
for 20 years, serving in the Strategy, Policy and Review, Asian and Pacific, and African
Departments. During this time, he served as IMF resident representative in Nepal and in
Ethiopia, mission chief to Chad and Cape Verde, Assistant to the Director of the African
Department, and Center Coordinator of the IMF’s East AFRITAC in Tanzania. Prior tojoining the IMF, Singh worked at the Bank of England, was an Overseas Development
Institute fellow at the Bank of Guyana, and also worked at the Canadian InternationalDevelopment Agency.

PFTAC
Courses

SARTTAC
Courses

Stephan Danninger was appointed Director of the IMF – Singapore Regional Training
Institute (STI) in August 2017. Prior to taking on the position, he worked for 17 years atthe IMF headquarters in Washington D.C. During this period, he led projects and teams
in various capacities, including the macroeconomic analysis and forecast for Germany,
Japan and the United States. He also worked in the IMF’s Research Department andpublished in various academic journals on topics related to growth, inflation, trade,
fiscal policy, financial spillovers and labor market issues. Danninger is an Austrian
national and holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University, New York.

STICourses

David Cowen has headed the IMF’s Technical Assistance Office in Thailand (TAOLAM)
since September 2015. In the Asia and Pacific Department (APD), he served previously as
the department’s mission chief on Indonesia, led divisions in East and South Asia, andwas an advisor in APD’s front office. In his capacity as a mission chief, he also led theFund’s work on Bangladesh and Solomon Islands, each under an IMF-supportedprogram, as well as on Cambodia and Lao P.D.R. Between 2004 and 2008, Cowen wasbased in the IMF’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Tokyo, where he focused onregional capital market developments and integration issues. Earlier, he was a desk
economist on India and Vietnam and in the Fund’s African and Statistics Departments.

TAOLAM
Courses

Stephan Danninger
Director
STI

TAOLAMDavid Cowen
Director
TAOLAM

CICDC

Ling Hui Tan
Coordinator
CICDC

Ling Hui Tan was appointed Coordinator of the newly inaugurated China-IMF Capacity
Development Center (CICDC) in August 2017. Prior to taking on the position, she workedfor over 20 years at the IMF headquarters in Washington D.C., primarily in the Institute for
Capacity Development, where she was the division chief responsible for themacroeconomics training program in Asia and the Pacific, and in the IMF’s Independent
Evaluation Office, where she led and/or contributed to evaluations of the IMF’s work in awide range of areas including social protection, crisis programs in the euro area, technicalassistance, capital account liberalization, and international trade policy issues. Her
research publications include papers on trade and structural policy issues in various
academic journals. Tan is a Singapore national and holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard
University.