Era Dabla-Norris is an Assistant Director in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, where she leads the work on the IMF flagship report, the Fiscal Monitor. Previously she was in the Asia Pacific Department as mission chief for Vietnam, where she also led the work on fiscal, climate, and gender issues in the region. Prior to this, she was a Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, working on debt, structural reforms and productivity, fiscal spillovers, and demographic change. 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