Niamh Sheridan is currently Deputy Division Chief in the External Policy Division in the Strategy, Policy and Review Department (SPR) of the IMF, where she leads the work on all aspects of IMF’s external sector assessments, including the EBA-lite models and reserve adequacy assessments. Since joining the Fund, she has worked on a range of economies (Australia, Estonia, Fiji, Malaysia, Moldova, and Singapore) and as mission chief for Samoa. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Economic Science from University College, Dublin.