Thomas Benninger

Tom Benninger, a Swiss national, joined East AFRITAC as a tax policy advisor in September 2024. Tom is a senior economist with the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD). He has been with the IMF since 2017 where his responsibilities included the lead role for the implementation of results-based management in FAD, tax policy economist with a focus on extractive industry taxation and fiscal economist on the country teams for Mauritania and the Kyrgyz Republic. From 2009 to 2012, he worked for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Irish Embassy on the Joint Budget Support Operation in Uganda mainly focusing on fiscal policy. From 2012 to 2016, Tom worked at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), responsible for macroeconomic support programs in Ghana and South Africa and as a lead on budget support policy and good governance in the commodity sector. Tom holds a double Masters’ Degree in International Affairs and Governance from the University in St. Gallen, Switzerland and Sciences Po Paris, France as well as a Master in Advanced Studies in Development Policy from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.