Banque de France, Paris, France

​Sep 2012 - Aug 2015

 

Macro-Finance Division, Financial Stability Directorate
Economist

• Provide analysis and assessment of the methodology to identify Global Systemic Important Banks (GSIBs) as a member of the Bank for Internationals Settlements’ Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)

• Analyze the impact of macroprudential policies on the financial system, with a focus on the banking system

• Analyze costs and benefits of the current regulatory proposals in the field of the OTC derivatives’ market as a member of the Bank for Internationals Settlements’ Macroeconomic Assessment Group for OTC Derivatives regulatory reform (MAGD)

• Conduct research in the field of market liquidity freeze in the euro-interbank market by exploiting the euro-interbank payment system dataset TARGET2 as a member of the European Central Bank’s Macro-prudential Research Network (MaRs)

 

The World Bank, Washington, DC

​Sep 2007 - June 2012

 

Human Development Unit, Social Protection Anchor                        Dec 2009-June 2012          
Senior Consultant                                         

• Modeled the cost of implementing unemployment insurance reforms for Colombia with Monte-Carlo simulation and coauthored the related report as part of a Technical Assistance Project for Colombia

• Coauthored a Joint International Labour Organization – World Bank report on Public Labor Market Policies by collecting and analyzing data on labor market policies implemented in various countries to counteract the 2007-2009 economic crisis

• Coauthored 2 chapters of the Labor Market Flagship for the South Asia region by leading the analysis of labor force skills supply and effects of labor market regulations on employment trends using household surveys for eight countries

• Modeled the effects of labor participation incentives for a set of Middle East and North Africa countries by analyzing pension systems’ internal rate of returns and coauthored related policy paper

 

Middle East and North Africa and Latin America Region                                 Sep 2007-Aug 2009
Consultant                                           

• Analyzed fiscal impact of work and natural disability programs in Syria and Jordan, contributed to the related regional disability publication and participated in technical dialogues with the Minister of Social Affairs

• Analyzed labor force skills supply in Latin America and contributed to the related labor market regional publication

• Modeled the cost of implementing a pension reform in Egypt with Monte-Carlo simulation and presented the results to the team of technical advisors in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance

• Performed research on the impact on a country’s implicit pension debt of government bonds’ launch spreads

 

e-MID SpA, Milan (Sole electronic market to trade interbank liquidity in Europe)

​Oct 2004 - Oct 2006

 

Research and Market Monitoring Department

 

Market Analyst

 

• Conceived and designed a platform for monitoring real time negotiations and automatic market supervision

• Analyzed and monitored the functioning of the European market for interbank loans with a unique dataset

• Updated, maintained and managed the high-frequency transactions dataset

• Contributed to periodic newsletters