Hélène Poirson Ward is Deputy Division Chief in the Strategy, Policy and Review Department of the IMF, where she leads the work on macro policy issues, including fiscal space, unconventional monetary policy and spillovers. Previously she worked in the European Department, where she was desk for France and Germany, and in the Asia Pacific Department, where she was desk for India and Malaysia. Her research focuses on external debt and growth, exchange rate regime choice, financial globalization, growth and financial spillovers and managing external volatility with multiple policy levers.