Era Dabla-Norris is an Assistant Director in the IMF’s Asia Pacific Department and mission chief for Vietnam. She leads the work on fiscal and climate issues in the department. Previously, she was a Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, working on structural reforms and productivity, income inequality, fiscal spillovers, debt, and demographics. Since joining the IMF, she has worked on a range of advanced, emerging market, and low-income countries and published widely on a variety of topics. She is the editor of the book Debt and Entanglements. Her research has also been profiled regularly in leading global newspapers and magazines such as The Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg, BBC, and CNN. She is a contributing member of the Global Futures Council of the World Economic Forum. Era holds a Master’s degree from the Delhi School of Economics, India, and a PhD from the University of Texas.