| Antoinette Sayeh | |
| Office1: | Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund |
| Term Start1: | 16 March 2020 |
| Office2: | Minister of Finance |
| Term Start2: | 2006 |
| Term End2: | 2008 |
| President2: | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
| Predecessor2: | Lusine Kamara |
| Successor2: | Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan |
| Birth Date: | 1958 7, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Monrovia, Liberia |
| Nationality: | Liberian |
| Alma Mater: | Swarthmore College The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy |
| Occupation: | Economist |
Antoinette Monsio Sayeh (born 12 July 1958 in Monrovia, Liberia) is a Liberian economist and Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Sayeh served as the Director of the African Department at the IMF from July 14, 2008, to August 31, 2016.[1] She also was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development.[2]
Sayeh is a graduate of Swarthmore College and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she received her MA and Ph.D. in International Economic Relations. Sayeh has also worked for the World Bank as country director for Benin, Niger, and Togo and worked on public finance management and civil service reform in Pakistan. According to the BBC, Sayeh "delighted international financial institutions" as Liberia's Minister of Finance.[3] [4]
Prior to her term at the IMF, she served from 2006 to 2008 as Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Sayeh was the second woman in Liberia's history to hold that position, the first being Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. She said her main tasks were reducing the high national debt, organising the state banking and financial system, and fighting corruption.
From 2007, Sayeh was a member of the World Bank Group’s High Level Advisory Council on Women's Economic Empowerment, which was chaired by Danny Leipziger and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul.[5]
During the legislative period, Antoinette Sayeh moved to the management of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as Director of the Africa Department in July 2008; in this role, she is now one of the most influential African politicians in the world.[6]