Tobias Adrian — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 2017.
Previously served as a Senior Vice President and Associate Director of the Research and Statistics Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for over 13 years.
Co-creator of CoVaR, a measure of systemic risk used to stress test banks following the great recession.
Authored extensive research on macro-finance, monetary policy, financial stability, and the yield curve.
Holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Biography

Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a position he has held since 2017. In this role, he leads the IMF’s work on financial sector surveillance, monetary and macroprudential policies, digital money, financial regulation, bank resolution, and capital markets.