Douglas Araujo joined the BIS in September 2018, where he has been an economist since May 2022. Previously, Douglas was in the Secretariat of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision overseeing a range of policy and supervisory topics. Before that, he worked at the Central Bank of Brazil on macroprudential supervision (2011-15) and led the efforts to develop and implement the Brazilian proportionality framework for prudential regulation (2015-18). Douglas worked on financial stability monitoring as a Fellow at the BIS's Financial Stability Institute in 2014. From 2015 to 2018, he also supported a number of countries in enhancing their macroprudential frameworks as a member of International Monetary Fund missions. Until 2011, Douglas worked in the private sector in Brazilian financial markets. His current research focuses on banking and the effects of digitisation on finance. Douglas also contributes open source software at the intersection of machine learning and economics.