Senior fellow Owen Barder was interviewed on Voice of America news about the IMF.
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Since its founding, the top job at the IMF has traditionally been filled by a European. But there is growing opposition to that arrangement. Beijing insists the IMF's future leader should reflect the growing clout of developing nations.
And the list of potential candidates is long: They include Zhu Min, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China; Agustin Carstens, Mexico's central bank governor; and South Africa's former finance chief, Trevor Manuel.
But Owen Barder at the Center for Global Development sees difficulty for non-European candidates. "It will be easier for Europe to come up with a single candidate who they want to nominate than it will be for the emerging markets to get an agreement. They don't necessarily have the mechanisms and the history of nominating a single candidate. So the danger is, that Europeans, because they're used to doing it, will find someone very quickly and try to push them forward as a fait accompli," said Barder.