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Ernesto Talvi
Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professor
et2325@columbia.edu
Biography:
Ernesto Talvi is Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) for the 2011-12 academic year. He is the Academic Director of CERES (Center for the Study of Economic and Social Affairs) in Montevideo, Uruguay and non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He is also special advisor for the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on global and regional macroeconomic and financial affairs. He is a founding member of the Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF).
Professor Talvi has a vast experience in economic policy making. He was the Chief Economist and Head of Research of the Central Bank of Uruguay between 1990 and 1995. During that period he was the chief advisor to Uruguay’s economic team (integrated by the Minister of Finance, the Governor of the Central Bank and the Director of Planning and Budget) and was in charge of the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He was also Senior Research Economist at the IDB Research Department in Washington, D.C. between 1995 and 1997 and visiting scholar at the Research Department of the IMF.
He is visiting lecturer at Columbia University in the course “International Financial Issues in Emerging Markets” jointly organized by SIPA and the IDB. He was professor of International Economics at the Universidad ORT (Uruguay), visiting lecturer at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina) and he was a member of the Executive Committee of LACEA (Latin American and the Caribbean Economic Association).
He received a BA in economics from the Universidad de la República (Uruguay) in 1983, an MBA in 1985 and a PhD in economics/finance in 1995 both from The University of Chicago.
Publications:
His recent public policy publications include Anemia, Exuberance and Vulnerability: The New Global Economic Geography (CERES, 2011); One Region, Two Speeds? Challenges of the New Global Economic Order for Latin America (IDB, 2011); Policy Trade-offs for Unprecedented Times: Confronting the Global Crisis in Latin America (IDB, 2009); The Aftermath of the Crisis: Policy Lessons and Challenges Ahead for Latin America (IDB, 2010); and All that Glitters May Not Be Gold: Assessing Latin America’s Recent Macroeconomic Performance (IDB, 2008).
He has published several academic and policy papers in books and journals.