Maria Fabiana Viola is Executive Director of OXON IA, The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC . Her research interests include international macroeconomics and finance, and the political economy of multilateral institutions. She graduated in Economics at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and pursued her postgraduate studies in International Finance at Birkbeck College, London, and at the London Business School.