Tao Sun is a senior economist in the Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). His recent research focused on systemic risks and prudential regulation framework, global liquidity and capital flows, spillovers to emerging market countries, asset prices, sovereign wealth funds, capital flow management, macroprudential policies, and capital account liberalization. He joined the IMF in 2007 where he worked as an economist in the Monetary and Capital Market Department. He has also worked at The People’s Bank of China. Tao has a Ph.D. in economics.