André Lara Resende

Focus areas: Monetary theory, chronic inflation and deflation, the political implication of monetary theory.

Andre Lara Resende is an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He earned a PhD in Economics from MIT – Massachussetts Institute of Technology, in 1979. He is a founding partner of Instituto de Estudos em Política Econômica da Casa das Garças and a member of the board of directors of the International Advisory Board of Itaú-Unibanco. He thought economics at PUC-Rio de Janeiro, was a member of the board of directors of the Central Bank of Brazil and President of BNDES. He was part of the team that worked in the Real Plan and was an advisor to the President of Brazil during the Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration. He was also as partner and executive director of Banco Garantia, Unibanco, Banco Matrix and Lanx Capital. His book Os limites do possível: A economia além da conjuntura, published in 2013, also by Cia das Letras/Portfolio-Penguin, was awarded the Jabuti Prize in the book of the year in Economics, Finance and Business, in 2014. His latest book Devagar e Simples: Economia, Estado e Vida Contemporânea was published in 2015 by Cia das Letras/Portfolio-Penguin.