Ph.D. Torbjörn Becker has been Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics since August 2006. Prior to this he worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for nine years where he became interested in international financial architecture issues, how countries can protect themselves against adverse shocks and what role IFIs could have in preventing and resolving crises. More generally, his work covers macroeconomics, international economics, financial markets, debt management, fiscal policy and development issues.
