“I am very pleased to announce that Jan Kees Martijn has been appointed as the new Mission Chief for Romania. He assumed the position on November 19, 2020. Mr. Martijn replaces Mr. Jaewoo Lee, who has been assigned to a new post in line with the IMF’s internal policies,” said Nadeem Ilahi, IMF Senior Regional Representative for Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
Jan Kees Martijn is a citizen of the Netherlands. He is the Mission Chief for Romania and Serbia, Chief of the Southeastern Unit in the European Department, and until recently he also was the Mission Chief for Albania.
Previously, he served as a Division Chief in the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Department and Mission Chief for Uruguay and Jamaica, and as a senior country reviewer in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department covering more than 30 countries.
At the IMF, he has worked on a range of advanced, emerging, and low-income countries, and he participated in or led projects on many policy issues including public-private partnerships, international migration and remittances, inflation targeting, and the use of aid inflows.
Before joining the IMF, he worked as an assistant professor in international economics at the University of Amsterdam, and holds a PhD in economics from this university.