BIO

Janet Stotsky is the head of the fiscal transparency unit in the International Monetary Fund's Fiscal Affairs Department. She has worked in the IMF for 13 years and was previously the deputy division chief in the Tax Policy Division of the Fiscal Affairs Department and an assistant to the director in the Secretary's Department. She previously worked for the U.S. Treasury Office of Tax Policy and taught economics at Rutgers University. She has a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, both in economics.She has published widely on tax and other fiscal issues and is preparing a monograph on gender and macroeconomic issues.