Anella Munro is Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Economic Analysis (CAMA). Her research interests are international macroeconomics, macro-prudential policy and international finance. Before joining ASB in 2019, Anella was Senior Adviser at the Economics Department of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), where she was also part of the Policy Research and Development Team and a member of the Macro Financial Committee, the Financial System Oversight Committee, the Financial Stability Report Advisory Group and the FMA-RBNZ on-site Review of Bank Conduct and Culture.

Before joining the RBNZ in 2009, Anella worked for the Bank for International Settlements, where she was Senior Economist at the Asian Office in Hong Kong, and for the Asian Development Bank, where she was Economist. She has been a referee for the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, the Journal of International Money and Finance and Australian Economic Papers. Anella holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oxford.