Francesco Grigoli is an Associate Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, with affiliations to the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Qatar and the Department of Economics in Washington, DC. Before joining Georgetown University, he spent 15 years as an economist in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. In 2022–23, he served as Director of Research at the Central Bank of the UAE. He has also consulted for the World Bank and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University.

His research spans a broad range of topics in macroeconomics and international economics, and he has published extensively in leading academic journals and policy outlets. His current work focuses on inflation expectations, price formation, monetary policy, and the diffusion of human capital.