Romain Duval

Romain Duval is an Assistant Director in the European Department, where he is the IMF Mission Chief for Spain and leads the Department's agenda on growth, labor, climate and energy issues, after having led the Regional Economic Outlook for Europe and the Emerging Economies Unit. Previously, he was an Assistant Director in the IMF Research Department, where he led the agenda on structural reforms and, prior to that, was the Division Chief for Regional Studies of the Asia Pacific Department, where he was the editor of the Regional Economic Outlook for the region and in charge of the research on regional issues. Before joining the Fund, he was the Division Chief for Structural Surveillance at the OECD Economics Department, where he was the editor of the OECD flagship publication Going for Growth and in this role also carried out and supervised policy and research projects. He has published extensively in leading academic and policy-oriented journals on a wide range of topics including the economics and political economy of labor and product market regulations, growth, productivity, trade, monetary policy, equilibrium real exchange rates, and climate change economics. Over the years his research has also been profiled regularly in leading global newspapers and magazines such as The Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg.