Sònia Muñoz is the mission chief of Peru at the Western Hemisphere Department at the IMF. In over 20 years at the Fund, she was the mission chief for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union and worked as the Financial Sector Assessment Program Mission Chief for Belarus and Bosnia-and-Herzegovina and Deputy Mission Chief for Japan, Argentina, and Kazakhstan at the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. She also worked on surveillance and program countries in the IMF’s European, Asian, African, and Fiscal Affairs Departments. Her research interests and publications cover climate change, macroprudential policy spillovers, financial interconnectedness, inflation targeting, portfolio allocation, competitiveness, pro-poor growth, regional integration, and tax reforms among others. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics