Luca Fornaro earned his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Research in International Economics (CREi), Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), and Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research interests include international macroeconomics, monetary economics and economic growth.