Raphael A.Espinoza
Last Updated: March 11, 2024
Raphael Espinoza is Deputy Division Chief in the Central America Division of the IMF Western Hemisphere Department and an external research associate at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was Deputy Division Chief in the Fiscal Policy Division of the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department. He has worked on a variety of IMF program and near-program countries as well as on research-oriented positions at the IMF and at the European Central Bank. He has also been Assistant Professor in Economics at University College London (UCL), where he was the Director of the Centre for Studies of Emerging Economies, and provided advisory services as a financial stability expert for the central banks of Peru and Colombia. He has published extensively on macroeconomics and economic development issues, including in two books (Macroeconomic Policy in Fragile States, OUP, 2021; The Macroeconomics of the Arab States of the Gulf, OUP, 2013). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Email: RESPINOZA@imf.org
Fluent In: French, Spanish.
Education:
PhD in Economics, University of Oxford, 2009
Visiting PhD student, Yale University, 2007
MSc. in Economics for Development, University of Oxford, 2004
Ingenieur des Ponts et Chaussees (MSc. in Applied Mathematics), 2004
Previous Experience:
Deputy Division Chief, Fiscal Policy and Surveillance Division, Fiscal Affairs Department
Senior Economist, European Department, UK desk, IMF, 2018-2019
Director, Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies, UCL, 2015-2016
Assistant Professor in Economics, University College London (UCL), 2014-2016
Senior Economist/Economist, Research Department, Systemic Issues Division, IMF, 2011-2018
Economist, Strategy, Policy and Review Department, Strategy Unit for Low Income Countries, IMF, 2010-2011
Economist, Middle East and Central Asia Department, Gulf Cooperation Council Division, IMF, 2008-2010
Economist, International Environment Division, European Central Bank, 2007-2008
Field of Expertise:
Development Economics
Monetary Policy
Macro-Financial Issues
Open Economy Macroeconomics