Ernesto Talvi

CERES; Inter-American Development Bank and The Brookings Institution

Ernesto Talvi is the Academic Director of CERES (Center for the Study of Economic and Social Affairs). CERES is a non-for-profit independent public policy research institution, in Montevideo, Uruguay; specialized in the economic analysis of Latin America. He is also a special advisor to the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) on global and regional macroeconomic and financial affairs, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution.

Ernesto teaches International Economics at the Universidad ORT in Montevideo, Uruguay and is a visiting professor at the School of Government of the Universidad Torcuatto di Tella in Buenos Aires.

Previously, he was Senior Research Economist at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., between 1995 and 1997; visiting scholar at the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund in 1994; and the Chief Economist and Head of Research of the Central Bank of Uruguay between 1990 and 1995.

He is a founding member of the Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF) and was a member of the Executive Committee of LACEA (Latin American and the Caribbean Economic Association).

His areas of expertise include Emerging Markets Macroeconomics with special emphasis in Latin America; business cycles, stabilization programs, fiscal policy, capital flows and financial crises.

He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics in 1995 and an MBA in 1989, both at The University of Chicago.