Mercedes Marcó del Pont

Mercedes Marcó del Pont
President of the Central Bank of Argentina
In office February 3, 2010 – November 18, 2013
Preceded by	Martín Redrado Miguel Ángel Pesce (interim)
Succeeded by	Juan Carlos Fábrega
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Born	August 28, 1957
Nationality	Argentina
Alma mater	University of Buenos Aires
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Mercedes Marcó del Pont (born August 28, 1957) is an Argentine economist and lawmaker appointed President of the Central Bank of Argentina on February 3, 2010.

Mercedes Marcó del Pont was born and raised in the northside of Buenos Aires. The Marcó del Pont family first arrived in what today is Argentina in 1785 from Catalunya, and became prominent in commerce. She took an interest in politics in her teens, and became affiliated with the centrist Integration and Development Movement (MID), a party whose platform focused on support for import substitution industrialization and foreign direct investment. She enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, and earned a degree in Economics in 1982. She joined CLACSO, the Latin American Social Sciences Council, in 1984, and was a teaching assistant at her alma mater's School of Economics, and taught a specialized course in the discipline for members of the Sanitation Workers' Federation in 1985. She was accepted as a Master's Degree candidate at Yale University's Economic Growth Center, and earned her postgraduate in International and Development Economics in 1987.

Returning to Argentina, she was a senior researcher for the Development Research Foundation (FIDE), a think tank founded by Octavio Frigerio (son of the late MID leader, Rogelio Julio Frigerio, and Marcó de Pont's cousin). She entered public service in 1989 as chief advisor on petrochemical industry policy for the Economy Ministry's Planning Secretariat, and following her departure, was named Director of FIDE in 1991. She served over the next decade as a consultant on statistics and investment incentive policies for the city of Buenos Aires, and for the provinces of Buenos Aires and Misiones. She authored a number of papers on the local effects of globalization, on the 1992 Brady Plan for foreign debt reduction, on the Convertibility Plan for exchange rate stabilization, and on the labor market, among other topics.

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