Andreas (Andy) Jobst is an Economist in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on structured finance, risk management, Islamic finance, financial regulation, and econometrics. He previously worked at the Division for Insurance and Research at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) in Frankfurt/Main, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England, the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the European Securitization Group of Deutsche Bank, and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Mr. Jobst holds a PhD in Finance from the London School of Economics (LSE) and has been educated at Oxford and Cambridge. He has been inducted to Risk’s Who’s Who global directory of risk management.