Cesaire Meh leads a macro-financial team that provides economic research and analysis to support IFC’s investments, advisory efforts, and private capital mobilization. He joined IFC following a 22-year career at the Bank of Canada, where he held progressively senior roles across operations and research.

At the Bank of Canada (BoC), Cesaire served as Senior Research Officer, guiding priorities on macroprudential policy, financial stability, and debt sustainability. Previously, as Managing Director of the International Economic Analysis Department, he provided policy advice and analyzed global economic and financial developments to inform monetary policy decisions. He also represented the BoC in several international working groups, including the G20 Framework Working Group and the Financial Stability Board’s Macroeconomic Assessment Group. Additionally, he chaired the BIS workstream on implementing the Basel III countercyclical capital buffer. In 2018, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University. He has published extensively in scholarly journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of the European Economic Association. Cesaire holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Reports

Scaling Up Private Finance for Clean Energy in Emerging and Developing Economies

Investing in Monetary Policy Independence in a Small Open Economy

Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of the Transition to Stronger Capital and Liquidity Requirements

Publications

Limited Nominal Indexation of Optimal Financial Contracts

The Welfare Cost of Inflation Revisited: The Role of Financial Innovation and Household Heterogeneity

Entrepreneurship, Wealth Inequality, and Taxation

A Policy Model to Analyze Macroprudential Regulations and Monetary Policy

Asset Demand and Real Interest Rates

Cesaire Meh leads a macro-financial team that provides economic research and analysis to support IFC’s investments, advisory efforts, and private capital mobilization. He joined IFC following a 22-year career at the Bank of Canada, where he held progressively senior roles across operations and research.

At the Bank of Canada (BoC), Cesaire served as Senior Research Officer, guiding priorities on macroprudential policy, financial stability, and debt sustainability. Previously, as Managing Director of the International Economic Analysis Department, he provided policy advice and analyzed global economic and financial developments to inform monetary policy decisions. He also represented the BoC in several international working groups, including the G20 Framework Working Group and the Financial Stability Board’s Macroeconomic Assessment Group. Additionally, he chaired the BIS workstream on implementing the Basel III countercyclical capital buffer. In 2018, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University. He has published extensively in scholarly journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of the European Economic Association. Cesaire holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Reports

Scaling Up Private Finance for Clean Energy in Emerging and Developing Economies

Investing in Monetary Policy Independence in a Small Open Economy

Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of the Transition to Stronger Capital and Liquidity Requirements

Publications

Limited Nominal Indexation of Optimal Financial Contracts

The Welfare Cost of Inflation Revisited: The Role of Financial Innovation and Household Heterogeneity

Entrepreneurship, Wealth Inequality, and Taxation

A Policy Model to Analyze Macroprudential Regulations and Monetary Policy

Asset Demand and Real Interest Rates