João Ayres is a Research Economist in the Research Department at the Inter-American Development Bank. He received his B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Sao Paulo, his M.Sc. and D.Sc. in Economics from Getulio Vargas Foundation, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. During his studies, he held visiting positions at Columbia University, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and worked as a Research Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. His research focuses on international economics, macroeconomics, and public finance.

Francisco (Paco) Buera is a macroeconomist whose best-known work lies at the intersection of finance, economic growth, and development economics. Professor Buera’s current research spans many topics, including the role of financial markets in the process of development, the rise of the service economy, and the diffusion of technologies and economic policies across countries. Before joining the economics department at Washington University, he served as a senior economist and research advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Previously, he held positions at UCLA, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Princeton University, MIT, and Northwestern University. Buera is an associate editor at the Review of Economic Studies and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.

José Peres Cajías is a professor at the University of Barcelona. He received his Ph.D. in Economic History from the University of Barcelona (2013). His research aims at understanding the long-term economic development of developing regions by looking at the interplay of institutions, natural resources and trade.

He has reconstructed different long-term economic series and published several articles related to the study of economic growth, public finances and trade in Latin America and Bolivia.

Rodrigo Caputo is a Research Associate at the Center of Experimental Social Sciences (CESS), Nuffield College, Oxford University-USACH. He is also an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Universidad de Santiago, Chile. He has vast experience in monetary policy analysis and worked for nearly two decades at the Research Department of the Chilean Central Bank. He was a visiting scholar at the Bank of International Settlements, the BI Norwegian Business School and Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Rodrigo studied economics at the Universidad de Chile and earned MPhil. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Cambridge. The focus of his research is on monetary theory, open economy macroeconomics, economic history, and political economy. Rodrigo’s work has appeared in several journals, among them the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Economics Letters, International Finance and International Journal of Finance and Economics.

Carlos Javier Charotti currently serves as director of macroeconomic models of the Central Bank of Paraguay.

Simón Cueva is the Regional Academic Director of Laureate Latin America and Director of TNK Economics. He has been CEO of Laureate Costa Rica, Academic Vice-Rector of the University of the Americas, Senior Economist and Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund in Bolivia, General Director of Studies of the Central Bank of Ecuador, and international consultant on economic, financial and academic issues.

A professor at universities in France and Ecuador for more than 20 years, he is the author of numerous international publications on macroeconomic and financial issues. Also an engineer of the Polytechnic School of Paris and economist of the National School of Statistics and Economic Administration of France, he has a PhD in economics from the University of Paris I.

Julían P. Díaz’s research spans the fields of International Trade and International Macroeconomics. His work analyzes the effects of trade and financial liberalization, with particular focus on the cases of the so-called “transition economies” of Central and Eastern Europe that joined the European Union in the 2004 and 2007 enlargement rounds. His research has been published in a variety of Economics journals, including Economic Theory, the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Southern Economic Journal, and Economic Inquiry.

Carlos Fernández Valdovinos is a Paraguayan economist. On October 3, 2013, Valdovinos was appointed president of the Central Bank of Paraguay.

Valdovinos earned his degree in economics from Universidad Federal de Paraná in 1990. He received his M.Sc. in economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1994, and his Ph.D. in economics from University of Chicago in 1999, with the presentation of the doctoral thesis “Inflation and welfare in an endogenously growing economy.” Robert E. Lucas (Chairman), Larry Sjaastad, and Fernando Alvarez served as members of the evaluation committee.

Valdovinos began his career at the Central Bank of Paraguay as the Section Head for Monetary Programming in 1991-1992. He served as an advisor for the Managing Director of the Economic Research Division in 1999-2001, and was later appointed Managing Director of the same division in 2001 and served until 2004.

Beginning in 2004, Valdovinos transferred to the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he served as senior economist covering Argentina until 2006. Later, he served in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as senior economist covering the EMEA region from 2006-2011. Furthermore, he served as the IMF Resident Representative in Bolivia and Brazil.

On October 3, 2013, Valdovinos was nominated to replace Jorge Corvalan as president of the Central Bank of Paraguay.

In the academic field, Valdovinos was a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción and Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. He has also lectured at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago, with the doctoral thesis “Inflation and welfare in an endogenously growing economy.”

Márcio Garcia is associate professor at PUC-Rio, Brazil, since 1991, having already served as Department Chairman and Director of both Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University Economics Department. His areas of research are International Finance and Monetary Economics. Marcio has been visiting professor/scholar at the economics departments of Stanford, Chicago, MIT and MIT/Sloan, in the US, and at Paris School of Economics (then, DELTA) and Université D’Evry-Val-D’Essone, in France. He has consulted for international and Brazilian institutions, as The World Bank, IMF, IADB, ECLAC/UN, BM&F Bovespa, BNDES, Icatu, ANBIMA, NEO Investimentos and Fininvest, among others. His academic papers and Op-Ed articles may be found at http://www.economia.puc-rio.br/Mgarcia/. He is a research associate of CNPq, FAPERJ and member of the Bellagio Group.

Felipe Gonzalez Soley is currently a PhD student in Economics at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. He graduated with honors in Economics at the Catholic University of Asuncion in Paraguay and holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Duke University, United States.

In 2009, he started his professional career as a Junior Analyst at the Economic Studies Office of the Central Bank of Paraguay, where he then served as Head of Global Economy Analysis (2015) and Head of General Equilibrium Models (2016-2017).  He also served as Junior Advisor to the Cabinet of the Central Bank Governor (2014-2017). In the academia, he has held a position as Part-Time Lecturer (2016-2017) at the Catholic University of Asuncion.

Diogo Guillén joined Itaú Asset Management in 2015 as the Global Head Economist. Prior to joining Itaú, Diogo was lead Economist at Gavea Investimentos for two years, responsible for covering the Americas and Asia. He spent some months at the research department of the Minneapolis Fed, as a  visiting researcher at the National Bank of Belgium and teaches regularly graduate courses in Macroeconomics at PUC-Rio and Insper.

Diogo holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s in Economics from PUC-Rio and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University.

Patrick Kehoe is the Frenzel Professor of International Economics at the University of Minnesota. Patrick received his B.A. in Mathematics and Russian from Providence College in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1986.

Patrick has published in numerous prestigious publications, including Journal of International Economics, Econometrica, International Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Theory. He currently serves on several editorial boards and is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Throughout his career, Patrick has advised numerous Ph.D. students. He has been awarded several grants, including six from the National Science Foundation. His research focuses on international macroeconomics.

Tim Kehoe is originally from Newport, Rhode Island. He received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Providence College in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1979. He has held teaching positions at Wesleyan University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Tim has been a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota since 1987, where he is currently a Distinguished McKnight University Professor. In addition, he is an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. His research and teaching focus on the theory and application of general equilibrium models, especially in macroeconomics and international trade.

Tim advised the Spanish government on the impact of joining the European Community in 1986 and the Mexican government on the impact of joining the North American Free Trade Area in 1994. In 1997, working with a team from the Mexican consulting firm SAI Derecho y Economía, he helped design a foreign trade and investment reform program for Panama. The Panamanian government enacted this program in 1998.

Tim has held visiting professorships at many universities, including CEMFI, the Universidad de Alicante, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Universitat de Barcelona, the University of California-Los Angeles, the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, the University of Maryland, El Colegio de México, the Norwegian School of Economics, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Stockholm School of Economics, and Victoria University of Wellington. He has written over 100 books and scholarly articles and has supervised or co-supervised more than 100 Ph.D. theses in Economics. He has received numerous research grants and awards, including 9 multi-year grants from the National Science Foundation. In 2014, working with David Canning and David Bloom of the Harvard School of Public Health and Juan Carlos Conesa of Stony Brook University, Tim received a five-year, four-million dollar grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. He serves on the boards of numerous educational and research institutions and professional journals, and he was elected President of Society for Economic Dynamics for 2015–2018.

Tim was made Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidade de Vigo in 2008 and by the Universitat Autònona de Barcelona in 2016. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1991, Miembro de Honor of the Asociación Española de Economía in 2010, and Economic Theory Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2011. He was named Scholar of the College of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota 2005–2008, and he was awarded the College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Medal in 2013. In 2015, Tim received a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to write a book on the impact of foreign trade and investment liberalization focusing on the experience of Mexico.

Tim is married to Jean O’Brien-Kehoe, a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, who teaches American Indian and Colonial American History. They live on Nicollet Island in downtown Minneapolis.

Carlos Gustavo Machicado is a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Development Studies in La Paz, Bolivia. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chile, Santiago in 2006. He has also concurrently worked as an economics professor at Bolivian Private University, and as an invited professor at the University of the Valley and the Major University of San Andres. During his studies, he received the Chilean Government’s Program for the Improving of Superior Education (MECESUP) Ph.D.’s Fellowship and the Brazilian Government’s Agency for Graduate Studies (CAPES) Master’s Fellowship.

Joaquín Marandino is currently a Masters in Economics student at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Middlebury College, U.S., and an IB Diploma from United World College of South East Asia, Singapore.

Together with Gabriel Oddone, he is the coauthor of the chapter on The Monetary and Fiscal History of Uruguay.

Cesar Martinelli is a professor of economics at George Mason University.  He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and an Economic Theory fellow, and currently serves as advisory editor to Games and Economic Behavior.  He has published numerous articles in professional  journals, including The Review of Economic Studies, Theoretical Economics, The Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, The Journal of Economic Literature,  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, The Journal of the European Economic Association and The International Economic Review.  Before joining George Mason, he held faculty appointments at ITAM and at Carlos IIII University in Madrid.  He has been a visitor at the University of Chicago (2011) and the University of Rochester (1997-1998). He obtained a PhD in economics at UCLA in 1993 and a BA in social sciences (economics) at the Catholic University in Peru in 1987.

Felipe Meza is a researcher at CAIE and a professor of Economics at ITAM. He joined ITAM in 2007. He has worked on the impact of fiscal variables, the behavior of productivity during financial crises, the effects of financial liberalization, and the dynamics of the informal sector. More recently he has worked on the link between productivity and the cost and availability of bank credit for Mexican manufacturing sectors. As of 2018 his research topics also include the fiscal and monetary history of contemporary Mexico, real exchange rate dynamics, and the impact of the US monetary policy on Mexico. Prof. Meza has published in international peer-reviewed academic journals such as the Journal of International Economics and the Review of Economic Dynamics. In 2009 he was awarded the Kenneth J. Arrow Prize for Junior Economists by the Berkeley Electronic Press. He was a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores of Mexico from 2010 to 2016. He was awarded the 2nd Place in the Premio Banamex de Economia 2015. He participated in several meetings of the Comité Nacional de Productividad in 2014-2015. He has taught several courses on macroeconomics, and has advised undergraduate theses that have received awards. Prof. Meza earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from ITAM, and his Ph.D.in Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Juan Pablo Nicolini is a senior research economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Prior to joining the Fed in 2009, Juan Pablo taught at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, where he holds a part-time position. In addition, he served as chairman of the Economics Department (1994–99) and president (2001–9) of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. In 2006–7, he was Tinker Visiting Professor in the Economics Department and the Center for Latin-American Studies at the University of Chicago. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Banco de Portugal and in the Monetary Stance Division of the European Central Bank.

Juan studied economics at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán in Argentina and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago. The focus of his research centers on monetary theory and policy and on bounded rationality in macroeconomics. Juan’s work has appeared in several journals, among them the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

Gabriel Oddone is a professor of Economic Policy and Fundamentals of Economic Analysis at the University of the Republic in Uruguay. He has been a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank on issues related to the modernization of public administration, the Judiciary, Local Governments and Education, as well as institutional strengthening for the design and implementation of policies public in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador; Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Daniel Osorio Rodriguez received his Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He previously studied at the University of the Andes and the National University of Colombia in Bogota. His research interests include macroeconomics, financial economics, monetary economics, and banking.

David Perez-Reyna has been an assistant professor in economics at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, since 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2014. His research interests include macroeconomics and financial economics.

Diego Restuccia is a Professor of Economics and a Canada Research Chair in Macroeconomics and Productivity at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Diego is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge MA, USA and he currently serves as an Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics. Diego’s research work focuses on economic growth and development, in particular, the role of factor allocation across heterogeneous production units or sectors in accounting for aggregate outcomes. His work has appeared in leading economic journals.

He holds a PhD and MA in Economics from the University of Minnesota and a BA in Economics from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela.

Diego Saravia holds a PhD from the University of Maryland (2004). He has been in the Research Division of the Central Bank of Chile since 2009, where he is now the Manager of Economic Research. He has been an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Chile (2004-2008) and taught at CEMA University, University of Chile and Los Andes University. He has published in several refereed journals and books.”

Marco Vega is a the Deputy Manager of Economic Research in the Economic Studies Department at the Central Bank of Peru. He also holds a part-time position in the Economics Department at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His research concentrates on empirical macroeconomics and monetary policy. He has published in journals like International Journal of Central Banking, Journal of International Money and Finance, Empirical Economics, Economia (LACEA) among others.

Vega obtained a PhD in economics at the London School of Economics (LSE) and got his undergraduate degree in economic engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Peru.

Homepage: http://www.pucp.edu.pe/profesor/marco-vega-de-la-cruz/