Alex Segura-Ubiergo is Resident Representative in Senegal and the Gambia for the International Monetary Fund, where he has served as an economist since 2001. Dr. Segura-Ubiergo is the recipient of the Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in political economy in 2001 2002. His articles have appeared in World Politics and Hacienda P blica as well as in the Occasional Papers and Working Papers series of the IMF. He received undergraduate and Master's degrees in both Economics and Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a doctorate from Columbia University, where he held a Fulbright Scholarship.