Adam Bennett

Adam Bennett is Deputy Director of the Political Economy of
Financial Markets (PEFM) program and an Associate of SEESOX at the European Studies Centre. He also
lectures (on a part-time external basis) at Cardiff University. Prior to joining t. Antony’s College,
Bennett worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), from which he retired in 2011. He was
Senior Advisor (aka Deputy Director of Department) in the IMF’s European Department during 2009-
11, with responsibility (inter alia) for the Western Balkans, as well as mission chief for Italy. Before
that, he was Senior Advisor in the Middle East Department, overseeing missions to many countries in
the region, and mission chief himself for Afghanistan, Iraq, and West Bank & Gaza. He was head of the
IMF office in Cairo for two years through 2002. During the second half of the 1990s, he was chief of
the IMF’s Stand-by Operations division, covering all the IMF’s big-ticket programs of that era. In his
early career, Bennett worked for the UK Treasury (specializing in monetary policy and forecasting), and
for two investment banks. Bennett’s published work has ranged over macroeconomics, monetary
economics and post-conflict economics. He is a past member of the Editorial Board of the journal of
Economic Modelling. Bennett was educated at Cambridge University and the London School of
Economics. His most recent publication includes Economic and Policy Foundations for Growth in South
East Europe: Remaking the Balkan Economy (with Kincaid, Sanfey and Watson, Palgrave 2015)