Mary Goodman

Mary Goodman is an Assistant Director and Chief of the Debt Capital Markets Division in the International Monetary Fund’s Monetary and Capital Markets (MCM) Department. The Division focuses on assessing trends and emerging risks in sovereign debt; capacity building in sovereign debt management; and application of IMF debt policies in country cases and the implications of debt restructurings. From 2020-2023, Mary was the Mission Chief for Kenya and co-headed the African Department’s Debt Group. Mary joined the IMF in 2014. Mary brings 13 years of direct capital markets experience as a market participant at a major global macro hedge fund, Moore Capital Management, and separately as a managing director at a global liquid credit fund. Her policymaking experience in the US government includes work to reestablish financial stability as Special Assistant to the President for Financial Markets at the National Economic Council during the Global Financial Crisis and Senior Advisor to Treasury Secretary Geithner. She was the US Paris Club negotiator while at the US Treasury from 1991-1998.