International Monetary Fund (IMF) Economist Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: December 4, 2025

Applications are open for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Economist Program 2026. As an EP you’ll be a part of a group of workers working to deal with key international financial challenges and construct a profession that can assist you to apply your information, expertise, and analysis to coverage associated work that immediately impacts their 191 member international locations.

Working intently with skilled economists, you may be given appreciable duty in finishing up operations-associated evaluation, analysis and coverage improvement. You could have the prospect to work intently with nation authorities to make a significant contribution on a worldwide stage, fostering financial cooperation, securing monetary stability, facilitating worldwide commerce, selling sustainable financial progress, and lowering poverty.

The EP is a 3-yr program consisting of two 18-month assignments which goals to construct the long run leaders of the Fund. Depending in your assignments, you’ll acquire broad expertise in regional and nation-particular points, in addition to in fiscal, financial, steadiness of funds, debt, or different associated points and contribute to our analytical and analysis work. During this system, you should have entry to a variety {of professional}, technical, and language coaching and improvement actions to reinforce your skilled expertise and profession improvement. You may even be mentored, guided, and supported by seasoned economists, all with a view of making certain a satisfying and thrilling begin to your profession on the IMF. 

Eligibility

They are in search of prime economists from world wide who:

• Have not too long ago accomplished or are anticipated to finish your PhD inside a yr (or much less) of becoming a member of the IMF, in fields together with macroeconomics, finance, public finance, financial economics, worldwide economics, commerce, poverty points, macro-local weather, political financial system, econometrics or associated areas.
• Are capable of display a sound understanding of macroeconomics (even when specialised in different areas throughout graduate faculty) and use conceptual frameworks to elucidate advanced concepts, navigate across the completely different sectors of an financial system and spotlight the linkages between these sectors.
• Possess a superb educational file.
• Have confirmed analytical, quantitative, and IT expertise.
• Are a nationwide of 1 the member international locations.
• Will be beneath age 34 at entry to this system on September 8, 2026.
• Have robust written and oral English expertise.

You also needs to be:

• Motivated by contributing to the financial effectively-being of our members. 
• Interest in, with aptitude for, working in a world setting, and making a difference to international financial coverage points that influence the lives of individuals world wide.
• Willing to undertake a mix of operational, analytical, and analysis work.
• Versatile and versatile in studying about completely different areas whereas additionally possessing a powerful area of related experience.
• A pure collaborator motivated by exchanging info and concepts to achieve widespread targets.
• Culturally agile with the emotional intelligence to have interaction successfully internally and externally, develop relationships, and construct robust networks throughout and inside groups.
• Willing to journey (varies based mostly on task however usually one-two missions per 18-month EP task).                                                                                                                              
• Proficient in, or be keen to study, international languages. (Languages aside from English are helpful however not a requirement.)

Selection Process

They will conduct an preliminary screening based mostly in your application and supporting documentation. If you might be profitable in assembly the preliminary standards, you’ll obtain an invite for a preliminary interview. This could also be throughout one of many college campus visits or by video. Following a profitable preliminary stage (preliminary interview + transcript + references), they are going to invite you for a panel interview together with a writing take a look at and a evaluation of your job market paper.

The preliminary and panel interview phases will happen beginning in October via to the tip of January 2026, with the timing of the 2 phases overlapping. All affords will probably be made in early February to help a begin date in September 2026, at its Washington D.C. headquarters.

Application

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For extra info, go to IMF Economist Program.