Jeromin Zettelmeyer has been at the IMF since 1994, mainly in the Research and Western Hemisphere Departments, where he headed the team writing the latest Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere. He has written on financial crises, sovereign debt, economic growth, and the role of the IMF. With Federico Sturzenegger, he is the author of Debt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises (MIT press, 2007). He holds a Ph.D. from MIT.