Warren Coats retired from the International Monetary Fund in 2003 as assistant director of the Monetary and Financial Systems Department, where he lead technical assistance missions to central banks in more than 20 countries. He was a director of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority from 2003 – 2010 and is currently Senior Monetary Policy Advisor to the Central Bank of Afghanistan, Iraq and Kenya for the IMF and an advisor to the Bank of South Sudan for Deloitte. His most recent book, “One Currency for Bosnia: Creating the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” was published in November 2007.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.