Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Eduardo is a Civil Engineer from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the founder and CEO of the research firm Elypsis (elypsisweb.com), Dean of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) School of Government and Coordinating Director of the Argentina 2030 Program of the Office of the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Nation. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of ANSES, and Professor of Money, Credit and Banks at UBA.

In the past, Eduardo was Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard’s School of Government, Faculty Affiliate at the Harvard Center for International Development, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, President of the Board at CIPPEC (pro bono), Head of Research for Latin America and Head of Strategy for Emerging Markets at Barclays Capital, Senior Financial Advisor for Latin America at the World Bank and Chief Economist of the Central Bank of Argentina. In 2015 he received the Centennial Prize of the Argentina’s Academy of Economic Sciences, and in 2007 the Robert Kennedy Visiting Professorship at Harvard

His academic work is ranked in the first place among economists in Argentina by the RePEc system. In Spanish, he published three essays, including the recent “Porvenir: Pathways to Argentine development” (Sudamericana, 2015), and two novels (both at Random House Mondadori). He is an advisor to multilateral institutions and governments of developing countries and a regular contributor to local and foreign newspapers, and to the academic portal VoxEU and Economic Focus. In 2013 and 2014 he hosted Tasas Chinas, a radio program on economics and politics.