CEF Cooperating with Leading Experts in PFM and Central Banking

True to our mandate, our goal at the CEF is excellence in the capacity development programs we offer in areas such as public financial management and central banking. We are aware that this can be achieved only in cooperation with best experts. Each year, dozens of experts contribute to our learning events and regional cooperation efforts. We are also aiming to have resident experts in each priority area, where these are not covered by existing partnerships, such as with the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. One such expert recently joined the CEF from the IMF as an advisor in the thematic area of central banking.

Being a development training institution, we also pay particular attention to the capacity development of our own staff. Our long-term colleague Urška Zrinski recently moved on to the World Bank in Washington D.C. where she joined the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Secretariat. As a program advisor she is responsible for the quality assurance of PEFA assessments and is also taking over the training agenda to promote the PEFA framework. Urška joined the CEF in 2006 after completing Master’s studies at the University of London. She left the CEF with a PhD from the University of Ljubljana as an internationally recognized expert. We are proud of her career success and will certainly continue collaboration with her, especially taking into consideration that the PEFA Secretariat and CEF both strive for improving countries' public financial management systems.

Marie-Therese Camilleri is working at the CEF on an external assignment from the IMF as an advisor on central banking, contributing to fundraising, outreach and evaluation of CEF programs. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Manchester, a Masters degree in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe and has close to 25 years of experience in this field.