Kristy Howell

Ms. Howell is a Senior Economist in the Balance of Payments Division of the IMF’s Statistics Department (STA). Since joining the Fund in 2020, she has contributed to various STA projects, including the Climate Change Indicators Dashboard, the Coordinated Direct Investment Survey, and online training courses on the balance of payments and international investment position statistics. Ms. Howell is secretariat of the IMF’s Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics—the international forum in charge of developing the external sector statistics methodology. Her current focus is the update of the international statistical standards. She is part of the editorial team that will draft the next edition of the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual.
Prior to joining the Fund, Ms. Howell was Chief of the Balance of Payments Division at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, where she was responsible for the compilation of external sector statistics and also guided research on methodological improvements.