Nicoletta Batini

Nicoletta Batini is an Italian economist economist and a notable as a scholar of innovative monetary and fiscal policy practices. During the crisis she pioneered the IMF work exposing the dangers of excessive fiscal austerity and designed ways to consolidate public debt successfully during phases of financial deleveraging. Since 2003 at the International Monetary Fund, she has served as Advisor of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee between 2000-2003 and was Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey, Director of the International Economics and Policy office of the Department of the Treasury of Italy's Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze between 2013-2015, Lead Evaluator of the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office Independent Evaluation Office between 2019-2023. She is currently Senior Adviser of the Sveriges Riksbank Sveriges Riksbank. Batini's fields of expertise include monetary policy, public finance, open economy macroeconomics, labor economics, economics of transport, energy and environmental economics, and economic modeling.