• Director of the Latin America Program at the think-tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Senior Fellow with experience in designing public policy projects on transparency, judicial reform and security.
• Broad policy experience over 24 years as a senior U.S. diplomat, including most recently as Chargé d´Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission in Argentina.
• Executive Director for U.S. Deputy Secretary of State.
• U.S. State Department Director for Brazil and Southern Cone Affairs.
• White House National Security Council Director for Central Asia, Caucasus and Caspian Energy Issues.
• Economic and Financial Section Chief at U.S. Embassy Moscow during the 1998 financial crisis.
• Other Washington-based assignments on Japan, Korea and Syria and overseas posts in Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.
• MA in Economics, Stanford University; MBA in International Finance, UCLA; MA in Russian Studies and Foreign Policy, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS).
• Fluent English, Spanish, Russian, familiarity with Arabic, French, Italian.

• Financial Stability Adviser Office of Technical Assistance of US Treasury Department.
• OECD – Member of Latin America Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Task Force.
• Member of Women Corporate Directors (WCD).
• Extensive international experience over a 20 year policy and project management career at the World Bank with assignments on Brazil, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Nigeria, and Russia during the 1998 financial crisis.
• Co-founder and President of the Board of the Center for Financial Stability (CEF), a leading think tank and forum for public-private sector discussion.
• Senior Advisor to Secretary of Finance in Argentina's Economy Ministry and to Central Bank Chairman (2000-2002).
• Board member of Hidroeléctrica Piedra del Aguila and Caja de Valores.
• Senior Analyst U.S. Federal Mortgage National Corporation (FannieMae).
• B.A. in Economics, University of Buenos Aires, MA in Economics, CEMA; MPhil./PhD (abd) in Economics, Columbia University; Management of Financial Institutions, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU).
• Fluent Spanish, English, Portuguese, familiarity with French, Italian, Russian.

• Areas of expertise are financial and monetary issues, financial regulations and corporate governance.
• Previously held positions at the Center for Financial Stability (CEF), first as Senior Economist (2004-2009) and then as Executive Director (2010-2011).
• Technical Advisor at the Federal Tax Agency in Argentina for 10 years.
• Consultant to corporations, financial institutions, national and local governments and multilateral organizations mostly located in Latin America.
• Extensive publishing on his areas of expertise and participation as speaker in regional and international fora, and regular contributor in Argentina’s media.
• B.A. in Economics, University of Buenos Aires, Graduate studies in Public Sector Economics, Universidad de San Andrés and International Economics, Kiel Institute for World Economics.
• Lecturer at the Economics Faculty and Business School of the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) since 2003.
• Fluent Spanish, English, German.