Economist for Aruba and Trinidad and Tobago, IMF 11/2020–present
- Liaised with the governments, Central Banks, Statistics Offices, and private sector.
- Played critical role in Staff visits (2021, 2022) and 2021 Article IV for Aruba; and in the 2021 Article IV and 2022 Staff Visit for Trinidad and Tobago;
- Covered real, monetary, and financial sectors: analyzed pandemic’s impact on growth, labor market, and financial stability; worked on WEO projections and growth accounting;
- Did analytical work on structural issues, financial stability and integrity, exchange rate policies, and forecasting tourism, growth, monetary aggregates.
Economist for Panama and Dominican Republic, IMF 08/2018–02/2021
- Liaised with the governments, Superintendency of Banks, Insurance, and Securities of Panama and DR, and with the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic;
- Covered monetary, financial, and real sectors, statistics, and reserve adequacy (analyzed risks and vulnerabilities (RAM, VE), produced forecasts for WEO, run macroframework; was responsible for the DR FPAS forecasting model (inflation-targeting);
- Played critical role in 2018 AIV, 2019 staff visit (concluded on 07/23/2019), and 2020 AIV (concluded on 02/19/2020) for Panama and 2018 Staff Visit (11/10-11/22) and 2019 Article IV (concluded on 03/25/2019) for Dominican Republic;
- Contributed to program requests for the Rapid Financing Instrument to Panama (2020, 515 million USD), Rapid Financing Instrument to Dominican Republic request (650 million USD), and Precautionary Credit Line to Panama in 2021 (2.7 billion USD), including by designing liquidity benchmarks and liquidity window in Panama;
- Did analytical work on growth-at-risk, financial sector stability, and Panama Canal.
Economic Affairs Officer, IMF, Board Operations 07/2017–08/2018
- Covered country meetings across all regions and income groups, and policy issues; did background research, contributed analysis to the Board documents;
- Coordinated modification and clearance of the Summing Ups, participated in the pre-Board meetings with the Chair, Summing Up Officer, SPR reviewer and country teams.
- Worked on Annual and Spring meetings, IMFC and G24; moderated seminar in 2018 SM.
Financial Sector Analyst, International Finance Corporation, HQ 12/2016–05/2017
- Evaluated impact of the IFC lending on the SME jobs, assets and sales in Stata & R;
- Developed business analytics and visualizations for the SME financing in Tableau.
Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University (USA) 05/2014–12/2016
- Lectured Macroeconomics, International Economics (Intermediate, Masters);
- Developed syllabus and overall course structure, lectured, assigned grades.
Graduate Assistant, The George Washington University (USA) 08/2011–05/2014
- Taught Econometrics, Micro- and Macro- economics, International Trade and Finance;
- Held seminars, collaborated on curriculum and exams development, graded exams.
Graduate Assistant, Kansas State University (USA) 08/2009–05/2011
- Graded and assisted in teaching of Macroeconomics and Public Economics;
- Held tutoring sessions for undergraduate students.
Senior Lecturer, Astrakhan State Technical University (Russia) 09/2007–07/2009
- Taught Economics, Economic History with full lecturing and grading responsibilities;
- Directed students’ research and advised on academic matters and career decision;
- Conducted research and consulted government and industry professionals.
Fulbright Scholar, SUNY at Buffalo, USA 08/2006–07/2007
- Received grant to spend one academic year (sabbatical) in the USA;
- Conducted research on the US energy policy and reserve currencies competition;
- Designed undergraduate courses on micro- and macroeconomics.
Lecturer, Astrakhan State Technical University (Russia) 09/2002–08/2006
- Conducted seminars in Economics, Economic History, graded exams;
- Led office hours and advised students on research and academic matters;
- Conducted research and consulted government and industry professionals.
Economist, Lukoil corporation, Astrakhan, Russia 01/2004–02/2005
- Managed economic analysis, financial planning, cash-flow analysis, expenditure control;
- Reported to HQ in Moscow; advised CEO on decision-making and prices;
- Estimated economic impact of new contracts and prepared tender proposals.
Chief Accountant, UNIS ltd., Astrakhan, Russia 06/2001–5/2003
- Managed full accounting, analysis and reports; liaised with auditors and authorities;
- Researched financial and tax legislation; developed company tax policy;
- Explained billing invoices and accounting policies to clients.