Prachi Mishra is Chief of the Systemic Issues Division in the Research Department at the IMF. She was Advisor in the Research Department between September 2020 and December 2021. Prior to joining the Fund, she worked at Goldman Sachs as Managing Director, Global Macro Research, and India Chief Economist. Previously, Prachi worked in several IMF departments in Washington, including the office of the First Deputy Managing Director. During 2014-17, she served as Specialist Adviser and Head of the Strategic Research Unit at the Reserve Bank of India. Prior to that she was Senior Economist in the Office of Chief Economic Advisor in India’s Ministry of Finance, and at the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. She has a PhD in Economics from Columbia University and a Masters from the Delhi School of Economics.