Curriculum vitae

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Employment

2022–

Economist — International Monetary Fund

Research Department, Development Macroeconomics Division (2024–)

Research cooperation projects with the Central Bank of Chile and the National Bank of Rwanda
Heterogeneous-agent and demographic modeling for the World Economic Outlook
Guest Editor of IMF Research Perspectives
Program review for Brazil, Pakistan, and fragile states

Western Hemisphere Department (2022–24)

Regional Economic Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean
Article IV consultations for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union
Weekly departmental seminar organizer; Climate Working Group

2019–22

Economist Program — International Monetary Fund

Finance Department, General Resources & SDR Policy (2021–22)

Analytical work on Special Drawing Rights, credit risk, governance, and surcharges
Country program reviews (incl. Pakistan, Jordan, Suriname, El Salvador)
2022 Article IV mission, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

African Department, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2019–21)

Program negotiations: 2019 Rapid Credit Facility & Staff-Monitored Program, 2020 RCF
Fiscal Affairs Dept. technical-assistance mission on macro-fiscal forecasting
African Dept. Research Advisory Group

Education

2019

Ph.D. Economics

University of California, Los Angeles

2015

M.A. Economics

University of California, Los Angeles

2012

M.Sc. Econometrics & Mathematical Economics

London School of Economics and Political Science

2012

M.Sc. Engineering

École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris

Publications

A full list of publications and working papers is on the research page.

IMF policy papers

Apr 2026

Defense Spending: Macroeconomic Consequences and Trade-offs

World Economic Outlook, Ch. 2

Apr 2026

The Macroeconomics of Conflicts and Recovery

World Economic Outlook, Ch. 3

Oct 2024

Closing the Gap: Labor Force Participation in Latin America

Regional Economic Outlook, Western Hemisphere — background paper

Apr 2024

Eastern Caribbean Currency Union — Article IV on Common Policies

Oct 2023

Trade Integration and Geo-economic Fragmentation in Latin America

Regional Economic Outlook, Western Hemisphere — background paper

Aug 2022

Assessing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's National Investment Strategy

Saudi Arabia Article IV, Special Issue Paper

May 2022

Review of the Method of Valuation of the SDR

IMF Policy Paper 2022/020

Dec 2021

Interim Review of the Adequacy of the Fund's Precautionary Balances

Aug 2021

Guidance Note on the Treatment and Use of SDR Allocations

Jul 2021

Proposal for a General Allocation of Special Drawing Rights

Apr 2020

DRC — Request for Disbursement under the Rapid Credit Facility

Dec 2019

DRC — Staff-Monitored Program and Request for Disbursement

Presentations & conferences

2026

University Mohammed VI · International Economic Association Annual Congress · Central Bank of Nigeria

2025

Boston University · Barcelona Summer Forum · Bank of Spain

2024

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank · West Indies Economic Conference · Georgetown University · Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders (Paris) · Banco de México · Banco de la República (Colombia) · LACEA (Montevideo)

2023

International Industrial Organization Conference · 12th CompNet Conference (Brussels) · Bank of Jamaica · University of the West Indies · Bank of Paraguay · LACEA (Bogotá)

2019–22

NBER Economics of Health · Johns Hopkins Carey · EEA Annual Meetings (Manchester) · SED (St. Louis) · Southern Economic Association · Collège de France · Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond · World Bank DRG

Research experience

2017

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher, Sciences Po Paris

Summer and Winter 2017

2017

Research Assistant for Adriana Lleras-Muney

2016

Research Assistant, NBER

For A. Atkeson, A. Eisfeldt, and P.-O. Weill, "Measuring U.S. Firms' Financial Soundness"

2012–13

Full-time Research Assistant, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

For Joachim Voth

2011

Intern Analyst, Economic Bureau of the French Embassy, London

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, UCLA

Topics in Macroeconomics (Ph.D. 1st year, A. Atkeson), 2015
Macroeconomic Theory (F. Geerolf), 2015, 2016, 2017
Income Inequality (J. Vogel), 2018
Corporate Finance, 2017 · Econometrics, 2013, 2014

Special Reader, Department of Economics, UCLA

Industrial Organization (J. Asker), 2015, 2016
Mathematical Finance, 2018 · Money and Banking, 2015

Awards & honors

2021

Climate Change Challenge, final round — IMF

2020

Anti-Corruption Challenge, winning team — IMF

2018–19

Dissertation Year Fellowship · John and Joan L. Wickham Scholarship · Best Paper in Macroeconomics (Proseminar Award) — UCLA

2013–16

Graduate Dean Fellowship · Pauley Fellowship — UCLA

Skills

Programming: Python, R, Matlab, Stata

Languages: French (native), English (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), Mandarin (novice)