Ken Miyajima was Senior Economist in the Monetary and Economics Department, Emerging Markets Unit. Previously, he was economist at the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund, monitoring global capital markets and drawing financial stability implications. He was also in the investment banking industry, trading and structuring fixed-income derivatives products at JPMorgan. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics from Hitotsubashi University and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests included macro and financial stability issues in emerging markets.