Biography

Sanga Sangarabalan is an economist specialising in debt management, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting with technical experience in debt analysis (including contingent liabilities, restructuring, sustainability analysis and debt strategy), domestic debt market management, organisational development of the debt management function in ministries of finance, and design and delivery of debt management training courses. Between 1987 and 1989 Sanga was Macroeconomic Adviser to the Ministry of Finance in Guyana and between 1989 and 1994 was Senior Adviser to the Ministry of Finance in the Gambia. In the late 1990s, he designed courses in external debt management, debt restructuring, debt sustainability analysis and external resources programming. In 2002, Sanga provided advice on strengthening the institutional arrangements for debt management in Dominica, covering the legal and regulatory framework for borrowing, agencies responsible for debt contracting, recording and repaying, and the borrowing framework. In 2004, he undertook a similar assignment on behalf of the Ministry of Finance in Bangladesh, under the auspices of the DFID-funded Financial Management Reform Programme project, and he has since supported Public Sector Finance Management in the drafting of a paper on debt relief and sustainability for SECO.