Dave Coady is currently a Visiting Professor in Practice at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, where he has been affiliated since completing a Senior Visiting Fellow position at the Luxembourg Income Survey (LIS) Centre at the University of Luxembourg. From 2004-2022, David worked in the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), most recently as Assistant Director, Lead Social SpendingExpert, and Chief of the Expenditure Policy Division. Prior to joining the FAD/IMF, he was Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) from 1998-2004. David has held academic positions in the economic departments at University College London (UCL from 1992-1995) and Queen Mary College (QMC from 1995-1998). He earned his PhD in economics from the London School of Economics (UK) in 1992 and a Masters of Economic Science from University College Dublin (Ireland) in 1983. David's research interests include development economics, public economics, and publice xpenditure analysis, and he has worked extensively on policy issues related to the efficiency and distributional implications of public policies including direct and indirect taxes, public sector pricing, social spending, the evaluation of safety net programs, and age-related spending. David has extensive experience over more than two decades in providing first-hand policy advice, and capacity development support, to governments in advanced, emerging, and developing economies across all the above topics. He has also authored (and co-authored) numerous research articles, book chapters, policyreports, and books on these topics. David is currently writing a textbook with the running title “Fiscal Redistribution: From Theory to Practice”.