Juan P. Farah Yacoub is currently an economist at the World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President’s office. His areas of focus are economic crises, international finance, and sovereign debt; covering these topics from law and economics lenses. Prior to the World Bank he worked at Goldman Sachs & Co., the International Monetary Fund, the International Finance Corporation, the Potomac Group, and Keystone Strategy. His experiences encompass structured finance, macroeconomic research, and sovereign advisory. At the IMF, he was a member of the team writing the Fiscal Monitor and worked on a broad research agenda on fiscal issues and resource-rich economies. At the Potomac Group, he served as a sovereign advisor on debt restructuring and macroeconomic policy to various sovereigns. His works have been published in the Journal of International Money and Finance, Harvard’s Latin America Policy Journal, and working papers of the IMF. Mr. Farah Yacoub is currently on a leave of absence from his graduate studies in law (Juris Doctor) and Development Economics (MPA/ID) at Harvard.