This archive report was first published on 16 July 2020.
IMF Names Kenyan as New Director and Secretary ¶
On July 16, 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced the appointment of Ceda Ogada, a Kenyan, as its new secretary and director of the secretary's department.
Ogada has spent 21 years working for the IMF, rising through the ranks to become the deputy general counsel at the Bretton Woods institution.
Before joining the IMF, Ogada worked as a legal expert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva praised Ogada for his exceptional ability to bring people together, combined with his profound appreciation of the fund's institutional history and legal principles.
Georgieva stated, "Ceda has outstanding institutional knowledge, strategic and intellectual heft, and people leadership. His unparalleled ability to bring people together, combined with his profound appreciation of the Fund's institutional history and legal principles, as well as a strong service orientation, will help the Fund to even more effectively serve our member countries in a very challenging economic environment."
Ogada will succeed Jianhai Lin, who retired and began his new assignment on September 1, 2020.
