Irina Dubinina

Partner, Public Sector Advisory Services

Irina has over 28 years of experience in public administration and government finance, including 8 years of civil service (Ministry of Finance, 3rd class counsellor of the Russian Federation). She joined FBK in 2002.

Since 2003, she has been a government finance statistics and fiscal transparency expert of the International Monetary Fund. In 2012-2023, she worked at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, USA and in 2019 became a member of the IMF Government Finance Statistics (GFS) Advisory Committee. In 2021, she was included in the list of experts of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

She has experience in:

supervising, participating in and providing quality control of research and consulting engagements for public authorities
developing regulations, strategic documents and guidelines on public administration and government finance, including budget classification, result-oriented programme budgeting, public financial control and financial literacy
developing and implementing technical assistance programmes under projects of international financial organisations
consulting and training on government finance statistics and government financial reporting in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Mongolia, Nepal and Uzbekistan
reviewing translations from English into Russian of the IMF’s Government Finance Statistics Manual and other publications.

Publications on budget classification, government finance statistics, government financial reporting and external government audit (in Russian and in English).

Experience

2002–present FBK, Director of Public Sector Advisory Services, Associate Director, Senior Manager, Manager, Senior Consultant
2012–2013 International Monetary Fund, Economist of the Government Finance Division of the Statistics Department
1999–2002 Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Head Office of the Federal Treasury, Head of the Government Finance Statistics Department
1994–2002 Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Head Office of the Federal Treasury

Education

2007 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Economics, post-graduate studies, PhD in Economics
1997 S. Ordzhonikidze State Academy of Management, Degree in Accounting and Audit with foreign language skills (French)

Languages

English, French