Oxford Handbook of the International Monetary Fund

Dr. Bessma Momani is Associate Vice-President, International and Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, a Fulbright Scholar, a Governor on the board of the International Development Research Centre, and a member of the advisory board of the Canadian International Council. She has worked as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, both in the communications office and the Independent Evaluation Office, and to Global Affairs Canada (GAC) as a 2021 Visiting Scholar in its International Assistance Research and Knowledge Division.

Dr. Mark Hibben is Associate Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. His research interests include the politics of development, with a specific focus on the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Book publications include the co-authored (with Bessma Momani) What is Wrong with the IMF and How to Fix It (Polity) and Poor States Power, and the Politics of IMF Reform: Drivers of Change in the Post-Washington Consensus (Palgrave Macmillan). His work is also published in The Review of International Organizations, Journal of International Organizational Studies, and The Journal of International Relations and Development.