THE EDITORS
Teresa Curristine has 20 years of experience working in the PFM field. She is a senior economist at the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department, where she provides advice to governments on managing their public finances. She leads projects and teams working on a variety of public financial management issues in Asia and Latin America. Previously she worked for the OECD, where she ran the OECD Network on Performance and Results and managed cross-directorate projects on public sector modernization and improving public sector efficiency for the Germany Presidency of the European Union. She has published several articles and edited three books: Public Financial Management and its Emerging Architecture, Performance Budgeting in OECD Countries, and Modernising Government: The Way Forward. She worked as a lecturer at the University of Oxford from where she received her Ph.D.
Richard Allen is a visiting scholar with the IMF, and a Senior Research Associate with the Overseas Development Institute in London. He was Deputy Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department until December 2009. Before joining the IMF he was a senior official at the UK Treasury, the OECD’s SIGMA program, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, and a board member of the European Investment Bank. He has advised governments in 80 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia on PFM topics. He is the co-editor of The International Handbook of Public Financial Management, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013, and the author of many other books and articles of PFM and fiscal issues.
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