Graciana del Castillo is an expert on countries in crises - both financial and post-conflict. Her roles in the cabinet of the UN secretary-general in the early 1990s and in the IMF from 1996, saw her involved in ongoing operations and economic reconstruction in Central America, Africa, Asia, and Kosovo. More recently, Dr. del Castillo has held senior positions at Standard & Poor's analyzing country risk, and is a founding partner of the Macroeconomic Advisory Group and the Centennial Group. She has also been a senior consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and a visiting