Mario Mansour is Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD), where he oversees tax policy work in Francophone Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Central Asia. Prior to this, he held several positions in FAD (2004-2018), including Deputy Division Chief of Tax Policy, and was Director of the IMF’s Middle East Regional Technical Assistance Center (2018-2021). He has 30 years of experience in public finance, has advised on taxation in over 40 countries, and has published on a wide range of tax issues. Before joining the IMF, he was a tax analyst at the Canadian Department of Finance (1992-2001), and lead economist for a Canadian consultancy on tax reform projects in the Middle East and the Eastern Caribbean (2001-2003).