American economist Biswajit Banerjee has become the Slovak Finance Ministry's chief economist, said Finance Minister Peter Kažimír at a press conference on Thursday. "We're in a situation in which we need a view from the outside. This has been my key goal - cooperating with people who have horizontal experience not only from Europe, but mainly from the period when the crisis was culminating," said Kažimír. A former chief economist of the Slovenian Central Bank, Banerjee also served as a European Central Bank board member for monetary policy. He worked for the International Monetary Fund for 26 years, and he also has experience from academia.
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