The head of the US Treasury Secretary Cabinet is about to be appointed as number two of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a source close to the subject informed AFP on Wednesday.
Dan Katzwho works with the secretary Scott Besentwill replace a GOPINATH GITA As the new deputy general director of the IMF, said the source that required to maintain anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
A spokesman for the Treasury Secretariat declined to make any comment and the IMF did not immediately answer questions about the designation. For now there is no official announcement.
Last April, the Secretary Besent criticized the IMF and the World Bank and urged both institutions to “concentrate on the needs of the member states.” The United States is the main shareholder of the IMF.
Besent also criticized the IMF for using “a disproportionate part of its time and resources to work on climate change, gender or social issues.”
Katz, graduated from Yale University, was a treasure officer during the president’s first mandate Donald Trump And he was a banker of investments at Goldman Sachs.
At the end of July, the IMF announced that Gopinath would renounce its position at the end of August to show again in the Harvard University.
