Silvana Tenreyro (born 6 September 1973) is a British-Argentine

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

who is Professor of Economics at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

and External Member of the Bank of England's

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since July 2017. She currently serves as the president of the

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for 2021. She graduated with a BA (summa cum laude) from the

National University of Tucumán The National University of Tucumán ( es, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, UNT) is an Argentine national university located in Tucumán Province and the largest in Argentina's northwest region. Founded on 25 May 1914 in San Miguel de Tucumán ...

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in 1997, followed by an MA and PhD in economics at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

where she was supervised by

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Alberto Alesina Alberto Francesco Alesina (29 April 1957 – 23 May 2020) was an Italian political economics, political economist. Described as one of the leading political economists of his generation, he published many influential works in both the economics a ...

and

Kenneth Rogoff Kenneth Saul Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster. He is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and professor of economics at Harvard University. Early life Rogoff grew up in Rochester, New York. ...

. She was appointed to a three-year term on the

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from July 2017, and was reappointed for a second term from July 2020. She has been a professor of economics at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. She worked at the US

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from 2002 to 2004 and at the

Bank of Mauritius The Bank of Mauritius (french: Banque de Maurice) is the central bank of the Republic of Mauritius. It was established in September 1967 as the central bank of Mauritius. It was modelled on the Bank of England and was, in effect, set up with th ...

from 2012 to 2014. Tenreyro was elected Fellow of the

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(FBA) in July 2018. In 2021 she was named a

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. She has British, Italian and Argentine citizenships.

References

External links

LSE page with links to her journal articles
* Living people National University of Tucumán alumni Harvard University alumni Academics of the London School of Economics Argentine economists Argentine women economists Fellows of the British Academy 1973 births Fellows of the European Economic Association Fellows of the Econometric Society {{argentina-bio-stub