Sanga Sangarabalan

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Job title: Associate Consultant
Area of expertise: Debt Management and Macroeconomic Analysis
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Biography

Sanga Sangarabalan is an economist specialising in debt management and macroeconomic analysis and forecasting with technical experience in:

  • Debt analysis, including contingent liabilities, restructuring, sustainability analysis, debt strategy
  • Domestic debt market management
  • Organisational development of the debt management function in ministries of finance
  • Design and delivery of debt management training courses

Between 1987-89 Sanga was Macroeconomic Adviser to Ministry of Finance in Guyana and 1989-1994 he was Senior Adviser to the Ministry of Finance in The Gambia. In the late 1990s he designed of courses in external debt management, debt restructuring, debt sustainability analysis and external resources programming.

In May 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, Sanga 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 PSFM in the drafting of a paper on debt relief and sustainability for SECO.