Nurturing Economic Growth: What Should LATAM Countries do under the New Normal?

Speaker: Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay

Moderator: Ricardo Hausmann, Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University

Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay since October 2013. He has a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Chicago, 1999), Master in Economic Policy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994) and graduated in economics (Federal University of Parana, Brazil, 1990). Previously, he served as the Managing Director of the Economic Research Division at the CBP (2001-2004), senior economist covering Argentina at the World Bank in Washington, DC (2004-2006), senior economist at the African, European and Western Hemisphere Departments, and Representative for Brazil and Bolivia at the International Monetary Fund (2006 – 2013). Fernández Valdovinos is part of the Board of Directors of the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA) and Governor of Paraguay before the International Monetary Fund. Both in 2015 and 2016, he was a recipient of the “Best Central Banker Award” by Global Finance Magazine.

Co-sponsors: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; HKS Spanish Caucus; the Latinx Caucus; and the Latin American Caucus

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