Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, my life was shaped early on by financial crises. I grew up in the shadow of Argentina’s 2001 financial, economic, political, and social crisis – the worst in the country’s democratic history. To avoid unemployment, my father had to emigrate to Spain, my mother, sister, and I followed suit. Only a handful of years later, my high-school graduation coincided with the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Global Financial Crisis that ensued, and my parents were forced to move again. I grappled with the impact that financial crises had on the lives of the people I loved, and committed to understanding the complex processes through which the International Financial Architecture helped shape and constrain the different opportunities that states and people have, to develop and flourish.
After receiving my PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, my post-doc from the University of Oxford, and working as a consultant for big financial service providers (from international banks to legal counsels advising countries during bond issuance and restructurings), I returned to Argentina to join the Secretariat of International Economic and Financial Affairs at the Ministry of Economy. From there, I contributed to Argentina’s restructuring with its private and bilateral creditors, to the refinancing of the 2018 Stand-By Arrangement and approval of the Extended Fund Facility Arrangement with the International Monetary Fund, and represented Argentina at the G20’s finance track, getting to witness geopolitical power dynamics as an insider.
Since leaving the Ministry of Economy in July 2022, I am working as a researcher at the Latin American University for Social Sciences (FLACSO) and a consultant. My work combines rigorous academic research, with first-hand experience in the inner workings of international policy making, to draw out the complex ways through which the International Financial Architecture constrains states and peoples’ opportunities to develop and flourish. My aim is to identify promising reform opportunities that shape fairer and more efficient global financial governance arrangements and create the conditions for debt sustainability, development and the green transformation.