Werner Riecke

Background

About Werner Riecke

I spent a considerable part of my professional career at the National Bank of Hungary, finally as Deputy Governor and a voting member of the rate-setting council. My main duties were the design of the monetary policy framework, the conduct of monetary policy, statistics and international organizations, among them the World Bank, EBRD, ECB. Since 2005 I’m working as an expert on public debt management, public finance, and government securities market development. On behalf of IMF, UNCTAD, USAID, and the Commonwealth Secretariat, I headed or was part of public debt management projects mainly Asian, but also Central European and African countries, covering topics as government debt strategy design and implementations, the conduct of workshops and providing hands-on training. My area of expertise covers- Setting up of an institutional and regulatory framework for public debt management- Sub-national (local) debt management- Building of government securities markets, primary dealer systems- Conduct of auctions for Treasury bills and bonds, portfolio evaluation- Use of Shariah-compliant instruments in government debt management- Measures aiming at the creation of deep and liquid secondary markets- Debt portfolio and Cost at Risk analysis- Debt database design; Debt portfolio report generation - DMFAS – UNCTAD’s Debt Management and Financial Analysis Software; and - Use of IMF/World Bank’s Debt Management Performance Assessment (DeMPA), Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries (DSA), Medium Term Debt Strategy Tool (MTDS)- local and regional financial approaches, including e.g, impact bonds and funding- Computer literacy: advanced Excel, Access, EViews Specialties: Public Debt Management, Public Finance Management, Government Bond Market Development, Monetary Policy My website: wriecke.net