Catherine Pattillo is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development with expertise in growth, debt, development finance, low-income country macroeconomics, and African economies. Prior to joining CGD she had a long career at the IMF, most recently as Deputy Director in the African Department where she oversaw work on several countries and the Regional Economic Outlook publication, as well as on climate change, capacity development, gender and research. Previously she worked in the Fiscal Affairs Department as chief of the division responsible for the IMF’s Fiscal Monitor, the Research Department, on countries in Africa and the Caribbean, and the Strategy, Policy and Review Department where she worked on low-income country issues, and emerging issues such as gender, inequality, and climate change. She has published in these areas, as well as on fiscal, debt, investment, growth, monetary and exchange rate policies, aid, currency crises, Sustainable Development Goals, and firm and employment dynamics. She was the co-founder and manager of the IMF’s Macroeconomic Research in Low-Income Countries project funded by the UK’s FCDO. Prior to the Fund she taught and was a Research Fellow at Oxford University, Centre for the Study of African Economies. She received her B.A. from Harvard University, and Ph.D in Economics from Yale University.
