Gee Hee Hong
Last Updated: January 22, 2026
Gee Hee Hong is the Assistant to the Director in the Research Department. Her work focuses on inflation dynamics and the transmission of monetary policy, fiscal policy, and structural issues including firm dynamism, productivity, and demographic trends. She worked in various departments at the IMF, including the Asia and Pacific Department, Research Department, European Department and Fiscal Affairs Department. Her work has been published in top peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Review of Financial Studies. She worked several country teams including Japan, Turkey, East Timor, Iraq, and Italy. Prior to joining the IMF, she worked at Bank of Canada (2012-2014). Ms. Hong holds a B.A. from Seoul National University (2006) and an M.A. and a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley (2012).
Email: GHONG@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/geeheehong/home
Fluent In: French, Korean.
Education:
Ph.D. Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
M.A. Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2010
B.A. (summa cum laude) Economics, Seoul National University, 2006
Previous Experience:
Bank of Canada, Senior Analyst, 2012-2014
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Visiting position, summer 2014
Field of Expertise:
Monetary Policy
Macro-Financial Issues