Andrew Powell
Professor and Director
Guaduate Programs in Finance
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Andrew Powell is currently Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs in Finance at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. He holds a BA, MPhil and Dphil from the University of Oxford and was Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Subsequently he was Lecturer at London University (Queen Mary and Westfield College) and at the University of Warwick in their respective economics departments. In 1994, he moved to Argentina and joined the Central Bank of Argentina in March 1995 and subsequently became the Chief Economist of the Central Bank in 1996. He joined the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in May 2001. He has published papers in several leading journals and most recently has published on the role of World Bank, on dollarization and monetary and financial policies for emerging economies, on banking sector regulation and performance and on the political economy of fiscal policy.