Paola Subacchi is research director of international economics research at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs). Her research interest is in the functioning and governance of the international financial and monetary system, with a focus on post-crisis policy and institutional change. She is a contributor to peer-reviewed journals and current affairs publications. She is a regular media commentator with the BBC, CNN, Bloomberg News, CNBC, Newsweek, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and the European Voice. An Italian national, she studied at Bocconi University in Milan and at the University of Oxford.