Eduardo Levy Yeyati is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings, where he leads the Workforce of the Future initiative. He is also a full professor of economics and public policy at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and the founder and faculty director of its Center for Evidence-Based Policy (CEPE-DiTella). He is also a chief economic adviser at AdCap, a principal researcher at CONICET, a consulting member at CARI (Argentina), and a member of the advisory board of Fundación Ágora (Uruguay) and the editorial board of AS/COA’s Americas Quarterly.
He has extensive experience as a macrofinancial expert for multilateral financial institutions, developing country governments, and private institutions. His research on emerging markets finance, economic development, labor markets, and political polarization has been ranked No. 1 among economists in Argentina by Google Scholar and RePEc. His editorials and blogs have appeared in Americas Quarterly, VoxEU, Project Syndicate, the Financial Times, El País (Spain), and La Nación (Argentina), among other media.
In the past, he was the dean of the School of Government at UTDT (2017-2023), senior adviser at the Office of the Chief of Staff, director of Argentina 2030, Argentina´s Presidential Secretary for Strategic Thinking (2016-2017), board director at Argentina’s Bank of Investment and Trade Credit (2016), head of Latin American research and emerging markets strategy at Barclays Capital (2007-2010), senior financial sector adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank (2005-2006), and chief economist and monetary and financial policy manager of the Central Bank of Argentina (2002), among other positions.
Pro bono, he was the founding president of the National Council of Production (2016) and the president of the think tank CIPPEC (2014-2016). He has taught at Harvard´s Kennedy School of Government, LSE’s School of Public Affairs, Barcelona´s Graduate School of Economics, and Universidad de Buenos Aires.
His latest book is “Automatizados: Life and work in times of AI” (Editorial Planeta).
He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Universidad de Buenos Aires.
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Current Positions
- Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
- Founder and Faculty Director, Center for Evidence-Based Policy, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
- Chief Economic Adviser, AdCap
- Principal Researcher, CONICET
- Consulting Member, CARI (Argentine Council for International Relations)
- Advisory Board Member, Fundación Ágora (Uruguay)
- Editorial Board Member, Americas Quarterly.
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Past Positions
- Founding Dean, School of Government, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
- Managing Director, Argentina 2030, Strategic Planning Secretariat, Office of the President
- Senior Advisor, Office of the Chief of Cabinet, Argentina
- Board Director, Bank of Investment and International Trade (BICE), Argentina
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Education
- Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- B.Sc. in Engineering, Universidad de Buenos Aires