Pau Rabanal is a Deputy Division Chief in the Research Department of the IMF, and has been working on the External Sector Report since 2018. He joined the IMF in 2002 and has also worked in the Monetary and Capital Markets, Western Hemisphere, Middle East and Central Asia and Institute for Capacity Development departments of the IMF. Mr. Rabanal holds a B.A in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University. His research interests include monetary policy, macro-prudential policies, open economy macroeconomics and the analysis of external vulnerabilities.