Robert Rennhack is a Senior Advisor with International Capital Strategies. He worked for over 30 years at the International Monetary Fund, providing macroeconomic policy advice to emerging market countries. He has an extensive knowledge of the economic policy issues facing all emerging market countries in Latin America, with an emphasis on monetary policy, fiscal sustainability and financial stability. He also managed a staff of about 150 economists plus support staff in his most recent position at the Fund. 

Most recently, he served as Deputy Director of the Fund’s Western Hemisphere Department, which manages the institution’s relations with all countries in the Hemisphere—from Canada to Argentina. In this position, he oversaw sizable credit lines to Mexico and Colombia and lending programs to several smaller countries, such as Honduras and Haiti. He also led the IMF’s preparations on contingency stabilization plans for Venezuela. In previous work at the IMF, he led teams that assessed financial stability and development issues in Argentina and Colombia, managed the Fund’s global delivery of technical assistance on financial sector issues, and negotiated lending programs in many countries.

He also organized major conferences on topics such as economic challenges facing Central America and macro-prudential policies. He has written numerous IMF reports on macroeconomic issues, co-edited a book on macroeconomic policy issues in Central America and published several articles. 

Since retiring from the IMF in 2019, he has advised the Japanese government on its lending operations to several emerging market countries, including India and Turkey, in addition to providing advice on political and economic developments in Latin America to ICS.

He received his graduate training in economics from Yale University and his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. He taught economics at Wesleyan University.