In 2002 she was invited as Visiting Researcher by the Directorate Research of the European Central Bank. Her work during that time is cited by the ECB as one of those having influenced the bank’s decision to change monetary policy strategy in 2003. In 2003 she went on to work as a Senior Economist with the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. where she conducted pioneering work on global imbalances, inflation targeting in emerging markets and the macroeconomic impact of the world’s demographic change, all of which had lasting effects on the Fund’s policy approach towards advice and conditionality toward its members. From 2004 until 2013, she held a succession of posts in the IMF, including Resident Representative in Peru between 2006 and 2008. During these years she studied ways to boost export competitiveness and reform of the National System of Public Investment (SNIP) ro improve the provision of public services in health, education and road infrastructure and fight income inequality, and measures to render the regulation of public-private partnerships aimed at logistic and transport infrastructure more effective and sound. She also co-authored with the Central Reserve Bank of Peru novel analysis on measures to foster de-dollarization through structural reforms. In 2007 she was appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, a post she held until 2012. In early 2008 she returned to Washington D.C. to work on Chile but was co-opted in late 2008 to work on Canada and the United States, which had just entered the global financial crisis leading advanced missions. Her work focused intensely on the sustainability of U.S. public finances, the countercyclical impact of the state balanced-budget rules and the employment and domestic demand impact of NAFTAs’ automotive sector and bailouts with a focus on trends in international transport and logistics and the impact of swings in the USD/CAD bilateral onto the global automotive value chain. As the crisis moved to Europe, she also moved to the European Department with assignments on countries in the Nord Range, and Israel, and worked actively within EUR’s Analytical Group in charge of studying macro prudential rules and supervision of European Global Systemic International Financial Institutions (SIFIs), notably Nordea and Danske Bank. Batini was then made a member of the Editorial Board of the IMF’s prestigious Finance & Development magazine. Between 2011 and 2012 Batini was Alternate President of the IMF’s Staff Association Committee (SAC)—the Fund’s Trade Union.