Alexander Chudik joined the Dallas Fed in November 2011. His main research interests lie in the fields of open economy macroeconomics and econometrics. He has worked on a variety of topics, including macroeconomic modeling with a global perspective, transmission of shocks in high-dimensional systems, cross-section dependence, aggregation, global imbalances and exchange rate determination. Alexander was previously employed at the European Central Bank, at the International Monetary Fund and at the ING Bank. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge.