Silvana Tenreyro

Silvana Tenreyro is Professor in Economics at the London School of Economics and External Member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, and former President of the European Economic Association. She obtained a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. from Universidad Nacional de Tucuman (Argentina). Previously, Silvana served as Director and Board Member of the Review of Economic Studies; Chair of the Women’s Committee of the Royal Economics Society; External MPC member of the Central Bank of Mauritius; Director of the Macroeconomics Programme at the International Growth Centre; Chair of the Women in Economics Committee of the European Economic Association; Member at Large of the European Economic Association; Panel Member for Economic Policy; Associate Editor for JEEA, the Journal of Monetary Economics, Economica, and the Economic Journal. She worked as an Economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and was a founding member of CIPPEC, an independent think-tank in Argentina. She is currently a Lead Academic at the Centre for Macroeconomics at the LSE, and Research Associate at CEP and CEPR. Her main research interests are in Macroeconomics, particularly Monetary Policy, Macro-Development and International Trade and Finance.