Bambang Permadi Soemantri Brodjonegoro is currently the Minister for National Development Planning (Bappenas), having been appointed to that role by President Joko Widodo on 27 July 2016. He was previously the Minister for Finance (from 27 October 2014 to 27 July 2016) in President Widodo’s Working Cabinet. Under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s administration, Bambang served as the Deputy…
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Luis Caputo has a degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and is a professor of Economics and Finance for the graduate program of the Universidad Católica Argentina. He was Secretary of Finance of the Ministry of Finance and Treasury between December 2015 and December 2016. As Secretary of Finance, he played a leading role in negotiating agreements with creditors which were not a…
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Mari Kiviniemi is Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD Secretariat since August 2014. She studied political science at the University of Helsinki and also holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences. In her current position, her role consists of sharing her extensive experience to help increase the impact and relevance of the OECD’s work and to contribute to the public policy challenges of…
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Mitchell A. Seligson is the Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and serves as a member of the General Assembly of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. He is also the founder and Senior Advisor of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), which conducts the AmericasBarometer surveys. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Seligson…
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Pablo Ferreri is Vice Minister of Economy and Finance in Uruguay since March 2015 and was the General Director of the Revenue and General Tax Directorate (DGI) from 2010 to 2014. A public accountant, Ferreri graduated from the School of Economics and Administration of the University of the Republic, Uruguay, and holds a Master’s degree in Tax Law from the University of Montevideo. He served as…
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Ambassador Luis Fernando Carrera Castro served as the Guatemalan Ambassador to the UN from 2014 to 2015, and was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala from 2013 to 2014. He has a B.A. in Economics from the National University of Costa Rica and an M.A. in Economics and Development Politics from the University of Cambridge, U.K. He is an economist specializing in fiscal policy and political…
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Eduardo Engel is Professor of Economics at the University of Chile and President of the Chilean independent think tank, Espacio Público. Engel holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University, and an engineering degree from the University of Chile. He was a full Professor of Economics at Yale University between 2001…
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Mercedes Barriocanal is a Paraguayan journalist with more than 30 years in radio and television. She has led several investigative reporting and political analysis programs and is currently the anchor for the main newscast on Channel 4 News, Telefuturo of Asuncion. She is a renowned activist for children’s rights and education, a commitment recognized by UNICEF, which granted her the title of…
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Michael Reid writes the Bello column of The Economist on Latin America and is the newspaper’s writer-at-large for the region. He joined The Economist in 1990 and moved to São Paulo in 1996 to be the Bureau Chief for the next three years. He returned to London in 1999 as Americas Editor, a post he held until December 2013. His books include Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul…
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Danilo Astori is the Uruguayan Minister of Economy and Finance and prior to assuming the position he served as Vice President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. He was also the Minister of Economy and Finance (2005-2008) and Senator (1990-2005). Astori, a Public Accountant and Economist by the University of the Republic, holds an honorary doctorate from the National University of Santa Fe, Argentina,…
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