Marina Dal Poggetto is Executive Director of Eco Go Consultants in Buenos Aires. She has a degree in Economics from the UBA (Buenos Aires University) and a Master鈥檚 degree in Public Policy from the TorcuatoDi Tella University. She was Submanager/Deputy Manager of Macroeconomic Analysis of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic and Head/Chief of Advisors of the Secretariat of Economic Policy/Secretary of Economic Politics of the Ministry of Economy. She previously worked at INDEC and was professor of National Accounts, Economics and Finance at the UBA, the UCES and the UTDT and Consultant to the BID/IDB, the European Community and Unicef. She makes regular contributions to different journalistic media both local and international and since 2005 has been dedicated to the economic financial consulting, co-directing Estudio Bein & Asociados/Studio Bein & Associates for twelve years and Eco Go Consultores/Eco Go Consultants. as of July 2017.
Nicolas Dujovne is a partner at Tenac Asset Management, an Emerging Markets macro hedge fund. Previously, he served as Minister of Economy of Argentina between January 2017 and August 2019. In 2017 Mr. Dujovne was honored by the America Economia magazine with the 鈥淟atin American Finance Minister of the year鈥� award. Previously, he was the chairman of Nicolas Dujovne & Associates (ND&A), a consultancy firm providing macroeconomic and financial advice to the most important corporates and banks of Argentina. He served as member of the board of Directors of Banco Patagonia, as an advisor to the World Bank and between 2001 and 2011 Mr. Dujovne was the Chief Economist at Banco Galicia, the largest domestically owned bank of Argentina. Between 1997 and 2001 Mr. Dujovne was the Chief of advisors to the Deputy Minister of Economy, Pablo Guidotti and Member of the Boards of Directors of the Argentine Central Bank in representation of the Minister of Economy. Nicolas Dujovne has a BA in economic at the University of Buenos Aires and pursued post graduate studies at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella.
Juan Pablo Luna grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is the Inaugural Diamond Brown Chair in Democratic Studies at 大发彩票平台. While mainly focused on comparative Latin American politics, his research analyzes how socio-structural conditions such as social inequality and state capacity shape democratic institutions and development trajectories. In recent years, he has researched how organized crime dynamics is contributing to reshape politics, states, and markets in Latin America. His books include Latin American Party Systems (with Kitschelt, Hawkins, Rosas, and Zechmeister; Cambridge, 2010); Segmented Representation, Political Party Strategies in Unequal Democracies (Oxford, 2014); The Resilience of the Latin American Right (with Rovira-Kaltwasser; Johns Hopkins, 2014); En vez del optimismo. Crisis de representaci贸n pol铆tica en el Chile actual (Catalonia, 2017); Political Parties and Diminished Subtypes (with Rosenblatt, Pi帽eiro, and Vommaro; Cambridge, 2021); Latin American Politics and Society. A Comparative Historical Analysis (with Gerardo Munck, Cambridge University Press, 2022); Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Contemporary Latin America (with Andreas Feldmann, Cambridge University Press, 2024); and 驴Democracia Muerta? Chile, Am茅rica Latina y un Modelo Estallado. (Ariel, 2024).
Lucila Pinto is a journalist from Argentina, currently based in Montreal. She covers politics, science, and technology in Argentina, with work published in Science, Rest of World, Columbia Journalism Review, and La Naci贸n, among others. Before moving to North America, she worked for over a decade in Argentine media, including Clar铆n and Para Ti, and was a columnist at La Naci贸n. She has also worked in public policy communication for multilateral organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Economic Forum.
Ernesto Schargrodsky received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He is Full Professor and Director of the Crime Lab at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Previously, he was Director of Socioeconomic Research at CAF 鈥� Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, President of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and Dean of Di Tella Business School. He has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. He is also a fellow of the Econometric Society, associate researcher of J-PAL LAC, member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences of Argentina, and researcher of CONICET. His research has been published at the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Journal of Development Economics, inter alia, and includes studies of the impact of police deployment on crime, the effect of the privatization of water companies on child mortality, the analysis of popular support for privatizations, the relationship between bureaucratic wages and corruption, the effect of mandatory military service on crime, the impact on recidivism of the use of electronic monitoring devices instead of incarceration, and the effects of awarding land titles to squatters.
