Igor Zuccardi is a Financial Sector Economist in the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice of the World Bank. He is a member of the Macro-Financial Risk Initiative of the Practice and conducts economic analysis in topics of macro-financial stability and development. He has also worked in international institutions such as the IMF, the ECB, the IDB, and the Central Bank of Colombia. He has published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. Igor holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.