Mr. Jarkko Turunen
Mission Chief to Cambodia in the IMF Asia and Pacific Department
Jarkko Turunen is currently Deputy Division Chief and Mission Chief for Cambodia in the Asia and Pacific Department (APD) of the International Monetary Fund. In addition to Cambodia, his work covers cross-cutting issues in developing Asia, including progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. Before joining APD, Mr. Turunen worked on the United States (with focus on monetary policy), the Caribbean (as Mission Chief to The Bahamas), as well as in the Strategy, Policy and Review Department on Egypt, Belarus and various Fund policy issues, including conditionality in Fund programs, international trade and competitiveness, and jobs and growth. Before joining the Fund, he was Principal Economist at the European Central Bank and visiting scholar at MIT Economics department. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. His main research interests are in macroeconomics, monetary policy, development economics and labor economics, with publications in Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Perspectives, IMF Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Empirical Economics and Economics Letters.