Roland Meeks - CV
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Biography
Roland is at the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where he works on issues related to monetary and macroprudential policies. Roland's research interests span macroeconomics, banking, and econometrics. His work has been published in leading academic journals including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He has previously held positions as Senior Economist at the Monetary Policy Outlook Division of the Bank of England, lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Essex, Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has been a visiting economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and an equity strategist at Crédit Lyonnais Laing Securities, London. He holds a D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford.
Profile
Education
- Nuffield College, Oxford D.Phil.
Previous Experience
- Senior Economist, Monetary Policy Outlook Division Bank of England 2014-2018
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of Essex 2012-2014
- Senior Economist, Risk Assessment Division Bank of England 2009-2012
- Research Economist, Economics Department Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 2007-2009
Awards and Honors
- British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Oxford
- University of Oxford, Edgeworth Prize for an outstanding D.Phil. thesis
Country work or Mission Assignment
- Germany, Financial Sector Assessment Program. Macroprudential Policy Expert. 2022
- Israel, Technical Assistance. Monetary Policy Expert. 2021
- Republic of Korea, Financial Sector Assessment Program. Macroprudential Policy Expert. 2020
- Kingdom of Morocco, Technical Assistance. Monetary Policy Expert. 2020
IMF Career
- Monetary and Macroprudential Policy Division, Monetary and Capital Markets Department (2018-present)
Field of Expertise
- Banking
- Macro-Financial Issues
- Economic Modeling
- Monetary Policy
IMF Publications
IMF Books and Working Papers
- Emerging Market Resilience: Good Luck or Good Policies?, Working Paper No. 2025/256 , December 5, 2025
- Monetary Policy with Uncertain Inflation Persistence, Working Paper No. 2024/047 , March 8, 2024
- Negative Interest Rates: Taking Stock of the Experience So Far, Departmental Paper No 2021/003 , March 3, 2021
- Optimal Simple Objectives for Monetary Policy when Banks Matter, Working Paper No. 2020/244 , November 13, 2020
IMF Country Reports
Selected Issues
Other Published Materials
Non-IMF Publications
Publications in Journals (Refereed)
- Optimal simple objectives for monetary policy when banks matter, European Economic Review 135, 2021.