Ekaterina (Katya) Gratcheva

Ekaterina (Katya) Gratcheva

Advisor

IMF, United States

Dr. Ekaterina (Katya) Gratcheva is an Advisor on sustainable and climate finance at the IMF’s Capital and Monetary Market department focusing on implementation of the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust to help low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries build resilience to external shocks and ensure sustainable growth. She is also currently a non-resident fellow in Princeton centers for Pubic Policy and Finance and for Energy and Environment. In her prior roles she led the finance function in Climate Investment Funds and held a number of senior positions in the World Bank focusing on providing policy advice to central banks, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds, facilitating long term finance through capital markets and strengthening the role of financial institutions in development finance. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow State University, and a doctorate in Operations Research from George Washington University.