Jerome Vacher is a senior economist in the Gulf Cooperation Council division of the International Monetary Fund’s Middle East and Central Asia Department, covering Saudi Arabia more specifically. Before that, he was an IMF resident representative in Tunisia (2019-22) and Ukraine (2013-17), and a senior economist on Turkey and Spain in the European Department of the IMF. He also spent five years in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the IMF working on financial sector issues. Prior to joining the IMF in 2022, he was a public finance economist for Dexia Credit Local in Paris and a financial attaché at the French Embassy in Warsaw. He is a graduate of Sciences Po in Paris, Université Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne, and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany.