Antonio Spilimbergo is Deputy Director of the Research Department at the IMF. He received his undergraduate diploma from Bocconi and his PhD from MIT. Since 1997 he has worked at the IMF where he has been mission chief for Brazil, Italy, Slovenia, Russia, and Turkey. He is a research fellow of CEPR, William Davidson Institute, and CreAm. He is a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Central Bank of Russia. His areas of interest are: international trade, development, labor economics, political economy, and macroeconomics. His papers are published in leading academic journals, including American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and Journal of International Economics. He co-edited the books “Getting Back on Track: Growth, Employment, and Rebalancing in Europe” and “Brazil: Boom, Bust, and the Road to Recovery” and co-wrote the book “Si vax.”