Jordi Baños-Rovira is an economist specialized in public financial management. He is currently a Public Financial Management Specialist at the World Bank's Governance Global Practice, based in DC. Previously, he was a public financial management consultant with the IMF and the World Bank and occupied different managerial positions in Spanish governments, such as being the Head of Budget Policy at the Catalan Government, Budget co-director at the Barcelona City Government or CFO at the L'Hospitalet de Llobregat City Government. He has been also an associate lecturer and researcher at the University of Barcelona (UB)/Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), and a lecturer of public finance courses/sessions at both the Spanish (INAP), Catalan (EAPC), and Basque (IVAP) Institutes/Schools of Public Administration, and the Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) in Slovenia.