Eduardo Cavallo

Eduardo Cavallo is currently a Senior Economist at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC. Prior to re-joining the IDB, Eduardo was a Vice-President and Senior Latin American Economist for Goldman Sachs in New York. Eduardo had already worked at the IDB as a Research Economist between 2006 and 2010. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and an MPP from Harvard University, and a BA in Economics from Universidad de San Andres (UdeSA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He has been a research fellow at the Center for International Development (CID), a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, a member of the faculty at the Kennedy School of Government's Summer Program. In Argentina he co-founded Fundación Grupo Innova. His research interests are in the fields of international finance and macroeconomics with a focus on Latin America. He has published in several academic journals, and is the co-editor of the IDB book, Dealing with an International Credit Crunch: Policy Responses to Sudden Stops in Latin America.