Ms. Aruhan Rui Shi serves as Associate Economist at AMRO, where she is a member of the Macro-Financial Group, covering a range of macroeconomic research topics, including the growth impact of an aging population, exchange rate pass-through, and fiscal sustainability; and contributing to surveillance work for Japan. She also contributes to the development of macrofinancial tools, specializing in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models and the application of AI technologies in macroeconomic analysis.

Before joining AMRO, she interned at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of her PhD studies, where she integrated AI into macroeconomic models; and worked as a consulting economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), analyzing debt dynamics and fiscal sustainability. Her doctoral research focused on how adaptive economic agents respond to structural changes, applying AI technology in macroeconomic modeling.

Ms. Shi holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Warwick and a Bachelor’s degree (Honors) in Finance from the University of Durham.