Shekhar Aiyar

Shekhar Aiyar is a Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Non-Resident Fellow at Bruegel, and a Visiting Professor at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). Previously he held a number of senior positions in the International Monetary Fund, including Assistant Director of the Research Department, Mission Chief for Germany and Head of the Eurozone Division. His research interests encompass open economy macroeconomics, international finance, growth empirics and test cricket. Recent work has focused on the likelihood and possible consequences of geo-economic fragmentation. He has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, American Economic Review, European Economic Review, IMF Economic Review, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Economic Policy. He holds an MA in Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University.