Iyabo Masha is the Director of the Intergovernmental Group of 24 on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G24). She is a global economist with a strong focus on macroeconomic and financial policies. She served as a member of Nigeria’s Presidential Economic Advisory Council from 2019 to 2022.
Prior to that, she worked on a range of countries at the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, negotiating IMF lending programmes and developing non-programme policies for emerging market and low-income economies in Africa and Asia. She also served as IMF resident representative for Sierra Leone. Ms Masha joined the IMF from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2003, where she led the research department’s annual monetary programme. In 2023, she became the first African Director of G24.
In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Business Editor, Oladeinde Olawoyin, on the sidelines of the World Bank/IMF meetings in Washington DC, she spoke on a wide range of issues such as illicit financial flows, economic development, multilateralism, trade, and how the G24 is helping developing economies address debt issues.
