maintenantJean-Pierre Dumas is a senior economist with 30 years experience in macro-economic and fiscal policy resulting from assignments across a range of developing countries including Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Jean-Pierre Dumas has considerable working experience with the main funding agencies, including World Bank, and has extensive experience of providing high-level technical assistance to governments and ministerial line agencies worldwide.
Jean-Pierre’s main fields of expertise are related to macro-economic policy, budget reform, MTEF and public expenditure reviews, integrated macroeconomic and fiscal forecasting, fiscal decentralisation, sector costing and cost-benefit analysis (IRR and present value), training and capacity building.
Jean-Pierre has advised a number of finance ministries and has led various multi-disciplinary teams on budget presentation, budget projection, budget classification, budget support, expenditure reviews, decentralisation and tax policy and has delivered courses on a variety of topics for key development agencies, including the IMF Institute, the EC and the World Bank.
Recently, Jean-Pierre advised on the conditions for introducing a MTBF in Nicaragua, Slovakia, and in Kosovo and prior to this, he was responsible for advising the MoF in Mongolia on budget projections and macro-fiscal issues as part of the World Bank team implementing the MTEF. In 2002 he was Chief Economist in the MoF in Kosovo, working on budget presentation, budget projection, tax policy and MTEF. He is working on tax policy and design of a TA in Guatemala.