In her current position, Piroska Nagy-Mohácsi is responsible for various global policy initiatives on financial resilience and innovation, digital currencies, and growth and innovation. She was previously Policy Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), overseeing strategic directions and policy initiatives in Emerging Europe, Central Asia and North Africa. She was also responsible for the EBRD’s economic forecast and co-created and co-led the Vienna Initiative in 2008-15, a public-private crisis management and coordination platform in emerging Europe, and headed its Secretariat. Piroska worked in senior positions as economist in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) between 1986 and 2008 with surveillance, policy advice and program responsibilities in Europe, Africa and Asia. While on leave from the IMF, she was guest lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996/97 and Senior Adviser at Fitch Ratings in 2003/4. She has published in the areas financial stability, fiscal policy reform and structural transformation. She is the author of the book The Meltdown of the Russian State (Edgar Elgar, 2000).