Lilia Aleksanyan is an Economist at ADB’s Central and West Asia Department. Before joining ADB, she worked at the French Ministry of Finance, Banque de France and taught at Sciences Po as well as the University of the Philippines. Her current work focuses on macroeconomic outlook analysis, policy advice and technical assistance related to international trade and economic forecasting, for Central Asia and the Caucasus. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics.