Eduardo Levy Yeyati | |
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Born |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
November 14, 1965
Nationality | Argentina |
Institution | Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Universidad de Buenos Aires Harvard Kennedy School of Government |
Field | Economic Development International Finance |
Alma mater | Universidad de Buenos Aires (B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1989) University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. in Economics, 1996) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Eduardo Levy Yeyati (born November 14, 1965) is an Argentine economist and author. He teaches at the School of Economics of Universidad de Buenos Aires and at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella's School of Business,. He is also a founding Partner at Elypsis, an economic research firm that he founded in 2011. Since March 2016, he is the honorary President of the Council of Production at the Argentina´s Ministry of Production and the Director of the Program Argentina 2030 at the Chief of Cabinet Office.
He holds a Ph. D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
For much of his career, Levy Yeyati combined academic and policy-oriented research with policy making and private practice.
He was an economist at the International Monetary Fund from 1995 to 1998, professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella since 1999, where he directed its Center for Financial Research from 1999 to 2007, Chief Economist at the Central Bank of Argentina in 2002, Senior Financial Sector Adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean at The World Bank from 2006 to 2007, Head of Emerging Markets Strategy and Head of Latin American Research at Barclays Capital from 2007 to 2010), President of the Board of CIPPEC, an Argentina-based policy think tank, from 2013 to 2016, and Board Director at the Bank of Investment and International Trade (Argentina´s development bank in 2016.
He was also a Visiting Professor of Publi Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government from 2014 to 2016, Senior Research Fellow for the Inter-American Development Bank (2005–2006), Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution, and Guest Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics,., and has advised as an expert for the World Bank, the IADB, the IMF, CAF, the OECD and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, among many other institutions and governments.