Edited by Ralph Chami, Assistant Director, International Monetary Fund, Raphael Espinoza, Deputy Division Chief, International Monetary Fund, and Peter J. Montiel, Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. '41 Professor of Economics, Williams College

<b>Ralph Chami</b> is currently Assistant Director in the Institute for Capacity Development, International Monetary Fund. Most recently, he was Assistant Director and Mission Chief in the Middle East and Central Asia Department (MCD) where he oversaw surveillance and program work on fragile states: Egypt, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Yemen. Previously, he was the Chief of the Regional Studies Division in MCD. He is the recipient of the 2014 IMF Operational Excellence Award.

<b>Raphael Espinoza</b> is Deputy Division Chief at the IMF, in the Fiscal Affairs Department. He has worked on several crisis cases (Brexit, the euro crisis, IMF SBA programs, etc.) as well as in the IMF Research Department and as Lecturer and Director of the Centre for the Studies of Emerging Economies at UCL. He has written a book on the macroeconomics of the Arab States of the Gulf (OUP, 2013) and papers on international macroeconomics and finance.

<b>Peter Montiel</b> is the Farleigh S. Dickinson Jr. '41 Professor of Economics at Williams College. He has also worked at the IMF and at the World Bank, and has served as a consultant for the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as for several central banks. His research is on macroeconomic issues in developing countries. He has written several books and a number of papers in professional journals.

Ralph Chami
Mattia Coppo
Raphael Espinoza
Peter Montiel
Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Paul Collier
Thomas Risse
Daouda Sembene
Nabila Assaf
Michael Engman
Alexandros Ragoussis
Sarthak Agrawal
Adolfo Barajas
Connel Fullenkamp
Thomas F. Cosimano
Timothy Besley
Hannes Mueller
Gary Milante
Michael Woolcock
Katherine Baer
Sanjeev Gupta
Mario Mansour
Sailendra Pattanayak
Warren Coats
Christopher Adam
James Wilson
Ibrahim Elbadawi
Raimundo Soto
Isaac Z. Martínez
Ekkehard Ernst
Anne Oeking
Francesca G. Caselli
Andrea F. Presbitero
Charles Collyns
Kevin Kuruc
Shinji Takagi
Ermal Hitaj
Chris Lane
Paulomi Mehta
Rima Turk
Mark Griffiths
Phil de Imus
Kareem Ismail
Gustavo Ramirez
Robert Tchaidze
Ramzy Al Amine
Enrique Gelbard
Giorgia Albertin
Lars Engstrom
Jose Gijon
Clara Mira