Speaker Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Eduardo Levy Yeyati is Professor of Economic and Finance at the School of Business of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (where he also directed the Center for Financial Research from 1999 to 2007) and Guest Professor at Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He is also Director of Economics at CIPPEC (Argentina´s top think tank) and Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution. Previously, he was Head of Latam Research and Emerging Markets Strategy at Barclays Capital, Senior Financial Adviser for Latin American at the World Bank, Chief Economist of the Central Bank of Argentina, and Senior Research Associate at the Inter-American Development Bank, where he is now heading the LAC/G20 initiative. He works regularly as an international consultant for emerging market governments, multilateral organizations and other public and private institutions. His research on banking, monetary and exchange rate policy and emerging markets finance has been published extensively in top international academic journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania..