Shafik Hebous is a Deputy Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. He has provided extensive tax policy advice in advanced, emerging-market, and low-income economies. Shafik’s research covers a range of tax and fiscal policy issues and has been published in academic journals, including in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Monetary Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Goethe University Frankfurt.