Sherillyn Raga

Senior Research Officer

Sherillyn is a Senior Research Officer in ODI’s International Economic Development Group. Her research interests include regional economic integration, monetary and exchange rate policy, and structural transformation. Sherillyn has eight years of professional experience in supporting policy-related research at the Philippine central bank, International Monetary Fund and Asian Development Bank.

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Sherillyn previously worked with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas where she prepared the central bank’s policy positions on issues related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) financial integration, bilateral cooperation and regional capacity-building initiatives. Sherillyn was also a Research Associate at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where she contributed to macroeconomic surveillance reports and working papers on the evolution of monetary policy and global spillovers, and became a team member of the IMF Article IV Mission to Palau.

She also worked with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Papua New Guinea where she provided an analysis of the inflationary impact of the exchange rate policy and preliminary assessment of selected ADB projects.

Sherillyn obtained her economics degree from the University of the Philippines and her MSc in economics for development degree at Oxford University.