Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Eduardo Levy Yeyati (Buenos Aires, 14 November 1965) is an Argentine economist and author. He holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He was Head of Emerging Markets Strategy at Barclays, Chief Economist at the Central Bank of Argentina, and Dean of the School of Government at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He is a Full Professor at the School of Government of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, founder and academic director of the Center for Evidence-based Policy Evaluation (CEPE), Senior Fellow at the Global Development Program of the Brookings Institution, where he directs the "Workforce of the Future" initiative, economic advisor at Adcap Grupo Financiero, senior researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), member of the Editorial Board of ''Americas Quarterly'', consulting member of the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI), and member of the Advisory Board of Fundación Ágora.

He is recognised for his contributions to financial theory, especially for coining the concept of financial dollarisation and for developing one of the most widely used classifications of exchange rate regimes. In 2015, he received the Centennial Prize of the National Academy of Economic Sciences for his paper ''Fear of appreciation'' (published in the ''Journal of Development Economics''), and in 2007 he held the Robert Kennedy Visiting Professorship at Harvard University. Provided by Wikipedia