Dominique Desruelle is Assistant Director of the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department. Since joining the IMF in 1993, he has worked on countries in the former Soviet Union, Africa, and Central America, where he was mission chief for Costa Rica and El Salvador. He has also led Fund policy work on surveillance, sovereign debt, and a variety of low-income-country issues. Before moving to the IMF, he taught economics at the Université de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Montréal.