Domenico Giannone is an Assistant Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Econometrics (IAAE), and a Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Research (CEPR). His general fields of research are macroeconometrics, time series econometrics, forecasting, monetary policy, and business cycles. Before joining the IMF, he was Senior Principal Economist at Amazon.com, Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Professor of Economics at the Université libre de Bruxellesand LUISS University of Rome, Economist at the European Central Bank (ECB), and visiting Lecturer at Columbia University, Harvard University, London Business School, and the Graduate Institute of Geneva. He was a member of the CEPR Business Cycle Dating Committee and Founder and Director of Nowcasting.com. He holds a Ph.D. from the Université libre de Bruxelles, 2004.