Andrea Pescatori is the Deputy Division Chief in the IMF Asia and Pacific Department. Previously, he served as the Division Chief of the Commodities Unit in the IMF's Research Department and was an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He has extensively written on various macroeconomic topics, including monetary and fiscal policy, with his work published in peer-reviewed journals. Before joining the IMF, Andrea was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.