Elie Raymond David Canetti

Elie Canetti is an advisor in the Western Hemisphere department (WHD) of the IMF where he is mission chief for Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and directs the Caribbean Regional Financial Project. He also coordinates technical assistance for WHD. Since 2009, he has been an adjunct professor of finance at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Prior to WHD he served in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets department, where he led the Financial Sector Assessment Program for The Bahamas and helped manage the IMF’s multilateral financial sector surveillance. He also served as a desk officer in the Asia and Pacific Department. He has also worked with Mohamed El Erian at PIMCO, and at the U.S. Treasury and World Bank. Among his publications are a landmark corporate pricing/study, “Asking About Prices”, with Alan Blinder and others, and papers on stress testing (with Nassim Taleb) and on early warning indicators of financial stress. He holds degrees from Princeton University, the London School of Economics and the University of California at Berkeley. He is also an accomplished jazz pianist.