Sebastián Sosa is the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative for Serbia and North Macedonia. Previously, he was Senior desk economist for Spain in the European Department. He also served in the Regional Studies Division in the Western Hemisphere Department, producing cross-country research and analysis of macroeconomic issues in Latin America and the Caribbean, and worked on a number of country assignments in this region. Prior to joining the IMF in 2006, he was a professor (macroeconomics) at the Universidad de la República and researcher at the Center for the Study of Economic and Social Affairs (CERES), a think tank, in Uruguay. His areas of expertise and research interests include international macroeconomics and finance, and he has published several academic and policy papers in books and economic journals. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA in 2006.