Francisco Roch
Last Updated: July 17, 2025
Francisco Roch is a Visiting Scholar in the Debt Policy Division at the Strategy, Policy and Review Department, and an Associate Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Previously, he was a Senior Economist in the Research Department and also worked in the African, Western Hemisphere, and the Strategy and Policy Review Departments. While on leave from the IMF during 2017-19, he was Deputy Manager of the Research Department at the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), in Mexico. Associate Editor of the IMF Economic Review and the Latin American Journal of Central Banking. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and joined the IMF in 2012.
Email: FRoch@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/franroch/
Fluent In: Spanish.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago, 2012
M.A. in Economics, University of Chicago, 2008
B.A. in Economics, Universidad del CEMA (UCEMA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005
Referee Activities:
American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, The Economic Journal, Macroeconomics Dynamics, AEJ: Macroeconomics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Applied Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Monetaria, Economics Letters, Journal of International Economics, International Journal of Central Banking, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Public Finance Review, Applied Economics Letters, Economica.
Field of Expertise:
Macro-Financial Issues
Open Economy Macroeconomics
International Finance