Professor Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Professor Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Visiting Professor

School of Public Policy

Languages
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Key Expertise
Finance, Emerging Markets, Public Policy, Covid impact

About me

Eduardo Levy Yeyati is the Dean of School of Government at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, and the founding Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Policy (CEPE-Di Tella). He is also a Principal Researcher at Argentina´s CONICET, a consulting member of CARI (Argentina´s top think tank), a Faculty Associate at the Growth Lab of Harvard´s CID, and a member of the Editorial Board of AS/COA’s Americas Quarterly.

In the past, Eduardo was senior adviser to the Office of the Chief of Staff in Argentina and Director of Argentina 2030 (Argentina´s Presidential program for long-term strategic thinking), Director at the Bank of Investment and Trade Credit (BICE), Head of Latin American Research and Emerging Markets Strategy at Barclays Capital, Senior Financial Sector Adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank, and Chief Economist and Monetary and Financial Policy Manager of the Central Bank of Argentina. He was also the founding President of the National Council of Production, and President of CIPPEC (an Argentine think tank).

Eduardo is the top ranked economic researcher in Argentina according to rankings in RePEc and Google Scholar. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BSc in Engineering from Universidad de Buenos Aires.