IMF RESEARCHER 

Itai Agur is a Senior Economist at the Macro-Financial Division of the IMF's Research Department. Previously, he worked at the IMF’s Strategy, Policy and Review Department, where he joined IMF missions to Canada and Mongolia, and the IMF’s Singapore Regional Training Institute. Prior to joining the IMF, he worked at the Research Department of the Dutch Central Bank and the European Central Bank. His research centers on fintech, payment systems, and macro-financial interactions and has been published in both policy and academic outlets, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, and Emerging Markets Review, among others. He is an Associate Editor of the IMF Economic Review. His work has earned him the European Economic Association’s Young Economist Award and the Arrow Award for Junior Economists. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute. 

Email: IAGUR@imf.org

Personal WebPage: https://itaiagur.weebly.com

Fluent In: Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish.