Daria Zakharova

Ms. Zakharova is a Deputy Director in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review (SPR) department where she oversees surveillance and data provisioning policies, as well as risk and geoeconomic fragmentation workstreams. Prior to this, she was Chief of Macro-Risk Unit in SPR where she introduced state-of-the-art machine learning approaches to economic crisis prediction and operationalized strategic foresight in surveillance and risk work. During 2016-17, Ms. Zakharova led Fund work on operationalizing climate, inequality, and gender issues in surveillance. Before joining SPR, Ms. Zakharova spent several years in the European Department leading missions to Poland, Iceland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Ms. Zakharova’s research interests span crisis prediction, geoeconomic fragmentation, monetary policy spillovers, fiscal policy in oil exporting countries, and economic implications of migration among others. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.