Galen Sher

Galen Sher is a Senior Economist working on global fiscal policy topics at the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, where he has led the Fiscal Monitor report. Previously, he was Senior Economist for Germany in the IMF's European Department where he developed advice on a range of topics from macroprudential policy to productivity. Before that, he worked in the IMF's Research, Monetary and Capital Markets, and Western Hemisphere Departments. Galen's research interests are in applied macroeconomics and econometrics. He obtained his PhD at the University of Oxford.