Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Who is Eduardo Levy Yeyati?

Eduardo Levy Yeyati is an Argentine economist and writer. Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, he is currently Visiting Professor of Public Finance at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Economics and Finance at the School of Economics of Universidad de Buenos Aires and at the School of Business of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, where he also directed its Center for Financial Research from 1999 to 2007, and Director at Elypsis, an economic research firm that he founded in 2011. Since November 2013, he is the President of the Board of CIPPEC, a think tank based in Argentina.

Prior to that, he was Head of Emerging Markets Strategy and Head of Latin American Research at Barclays Capital, Senior Financial Sector Adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean at The World Bank, Senior Research Fellow for the Inter-American Development Bank, and Chief Economist at the Central Bank of Argentina. He has also worked as economist for the International Monetary Fund, and 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.