Laura Alfaro is chief economist and economic counselor at th
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
a leading source of financing and knowledge for the economic, social, and institutional development of Latin America and the Caribbean. She was previously the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at

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. Her specific areas of interest include capital markets, economics, foreign direct investment, globalization, and international finance. From 2010 to 2012, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in the government of

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Career

Alfaro holds a

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economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

and a

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in economics from the

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. At Harvard, Alfaro has taught in the General Management Program, the Program for Leadership and Development, and in the MBA and doctoral programs. Alfaro has published on global markets and finance, supply and demand shocks, and current events.

Other activities

Kiel Institute for the World Economy The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (, or IfW Kiel) is an independent, non-profit economic research institute and think tank based in Kiel, Germany. In 2017, it was ranked as one of the top 50 most influential think tanks in the world and w ...

, Member of the Scientific Advisory BoardScientific Advisory Board

Recognition

Along with being named Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration in 2013, Alfaro was also the recipient of a 2016 Lemann Brazil Research Fund Award from Harvard University and in 2018 she was the recipient of a Harvard China Fund Faculty Grant.

References

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