Kristina Morkunaite is an Economist within the Growth Markets team at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, based in Washington D.C. Most recently, from 2010 to 2015, she served as a Global Macroeconomic Research Analyst at the Institute of International Finance (IIF). Prior to that, she held research positions at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and at Bruegel (a European think tank based in Brussels). Kristina holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) in Riga and an M.Sc. in Financial Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.