Ousmène Jacques Mandeng, Director, Economics Advisory Ltd, has worked more than 20 years in the financial sector and international organisations on international investment and economic policy analyses and now focuses on the linkages between financial innovation and monetary and payments innovations. He is a Senior Advisor with Accenture in its Blockchain and Multiparty Systems Practice, working globally on digital currency solutions including central bank digital currency (CBDC) projects Jura, Khokha 2, E-Krone, Cambridge, and Digital Euro.
Ousmène was a Managing Director at Prudential Financial and UBS Investment Bank, leading coverage of official financial institutions globally. He worked at the International Monetary Fund, last as Deputy Division Chief coordinating work on IMF lending policies and the use of IMF resources in Latin America, including as a Resident Representative. He has commented periodically in the financial press and presented at leading international forums on the international monetary system and emerging markets' capital market developments.
He is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Fellow of the Reinvention Bretton Woods Committee and a Member of the Bretton Woods Committee and of Robert Triffin International. He is fluent in German, English, French and Spanish. He holds an MPhil in economics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in economic history from the LSE.