Mauricio Soto is a Deputy Division Chief in the Expenditure Policy Division of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. He focuses on a range of critical public finance issues, including social spending programs, government compensation and employment, and Sustainable Development Goals. At the IMF, he has worked on fiscal policy issues in over 20 countries in surveillance, lending, and capacity development activities. Before joining the IMF, he was a researcher on social insurance issues at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and The Urban Institute.