María Soledad Martínez Pería is an economist who, as of 2020, is Chief of the Macro-Financial Division of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund.
Before joining the IMF, she worked at the Central Bank of Argentina, Brookings Institution, the Board of directors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington as well as the World Bank.
At the World Bank, she was Research Manager of the Finance and Private Sector Development Team.
[2] Beyond policy work, she has also written extensively in academic journals and has published 35 papers.
Her most cited paper, joint with Michael Bordo, Barry Eichengreen and Daniela Klingebiel, analyzes over 120 years of banking, currency and sovereign debt crises to show that their impact on the economy has not increased.