Rishi Goyal is the Mission Chief for Greece and an Advisor in the European Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He has worked at the IMF since 2002 in a number of different assignments, covering advanced economies such as the euro area as well as emerging markets such as Brazil, China, Hungary, and Indonesia.

He has played a lead role in the IMF's work on a banking union for the euro area, financial interconnectedness, the new "spillover reports", reforms of the international monetary system, and strengthening the global financial safety net. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.