# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/poul-thomsen-q546260
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:03:45.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/poul-thomsen-q546260"
name: "Poul Thomsen"
slug: "poul-thomsen-q546260"
description: "Poul Mathias Thomsen is a Danish economist working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since the 1980s. He served as the director of the IMF's European Department. He led the bailouts of Iceland, Greece, Portugal and Ukraine during and after the Great Recession."
tagline: "Danish economist in IMF"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RIAN_archive_166764_News_conference_on_reforming_IMF_quotas_and_voting_rights..jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.26
  momentum:             7.189189189189189
  historical:           7.045792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Poul Thomsen"
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    title: "بول ماثياس تومسن"
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    title: "Poul Mathias Thomsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Mathias_Thomsen"
    title: "Poul Mathias Thomsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%BB_%CE%A4%CF%8C%CE%BC%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BD"
    title: "Πολ Τόμσεν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Mathias_Thomsen"
    title: "Poul Mathias Thomsen"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Mathias_Thomsen"
    title: "Poul Mathias Thomsen"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump