7th Joint Regional Financing Arrangements Research Seminar – Attendants
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Professor of Economics, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
Ugo Panizza is Professor of International Economics at the Geneva Gaduate Institute and Deputy Director of the Institute’s Centre for Finance and Development. Ugo Panizza has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute since 2008, a position he held in addition to being the Chief of the Debt and Finance Analysis Unit at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He is the Director of the Center for Finance and Development, Director of the International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB), Vice President and Fellow of CEPR, Fellow of the Fondazione Einaudi, and Editor-in-Chief of International Development Policy. Previously, he worked at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, alongside holding teaching and research posts at the American University of Beirut and the University of Turin. Professor Panizza’s research interests include international finance, sovereign debt, banking, and political economy. He has extensive work and research experience in Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa.
Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department at International Monetary Fund
Paolo Mauro is currently Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund. In 2014-16 he was Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Visiting Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. He joined the IMF in 1994. His academic journal papers have addressed topics including corruption, sovereign bond spreads, and growth-indexed bonds. He has coauthored three books: World on the Move: Consumption Patterns in a More Equal Global Economy; Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization: Sovereign Bond Spreads in 1870–1913 and Today; and Chipping Away at Public Debt. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Vice-President for Countries, Inter-American Development Bank
Prior to joining the IDB, he served as Minister of Economy and Finance of Ecuador. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2019 and was chosen Latin American Finance Minister of the Year by GlobalMarkets newspaper in 2020. Previously, Mr. Martínez was President of the Ecuadorian Business Committee (2015-2018), President of the National Federation of Chambers of Industries of Ecuador (2015) and Executive President of the Chamber of Industries and Production of Ecuador (2014-2018).
Mr. Martínez holds a degree in economics from the Catholic University of Ecuador, a postgraduate degree in international economics from the University of Barcelona and an MBA from Ecuador’s IDE Business School. He has also taken specialized courses at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, INCAE Business School, the Polytechnic University of Madrid and at several international organizations.
Assistant to Minister of Finance for Macro Economy and International Finance, Ministry of Finance the Republic of Indonesia
Prior to becoming the Assistant to Minister of Finance for Macro Economy and International Finance, Parjiono had served as the Alternate Executive Director of the Office of Executive Director of the World Bank Group of Southeast Asia, which represents Brunei Darussalam, Fiji, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Tonga, and Vietnam (July 2019 – March 2023). Prior to this position, Parjiono served at the World Bank Group as Advisor to the Executive Director at the same Constituency (March-June, 2019).
Parjiono held various senior positions at the Ministry of Finance in Indonesia including: Director and Chief Economist, Center for Climate Finance and Multilateral Policy, Fiscal Policy Agency (2017-2019); Director, Center for Macroeconomic Policy, Fiscal Policy Agency (2015-2017); Director, Center for Regional and Bilateral Policy, Fiscal Policy Agency (2013-2015); and Head of ASEAN Financial Cooperation and Policy Agency.
Parjiono authored books and articles on Economics and Development.
Deputy Division Chief at the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department.
In that role she is coordinating the work on Regional Financing Arrangements. Previously, she was in the Fiscal Affairs Department where she led several chapters of the Fiscal Monitor, the work on fiscal space, and the Global Debt Database. Her main research interests are on fiscal institutions, debt sustainability, and fiscal-financial interlinkages. She is a Distinguished Non-resident Fellow at the Global Development Policy Center and holds a PhD from Boston University.
G7 / G20 senior policy officer in the International Economic and Financial Relations directorate of the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission
Senior Fellow at Bruegel
Grégory Claeys is a Senior Fellow at the Brussels-based economic think tank Bruegel, where he has been working since 2014, and an Associate Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris where he has been teaching macroeconomics since 2015. His research interests include international macroeconomics and finance, central banking and European economic governance. Prior to joining Bruegel, he conducted research in several capacities, including as a visiting researcher in the Financial Research Department of the Central Bank of Chile in Santiago and as an economist in the Research Department of the French bank Crédit Agricole in Paris. He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence), an MSc in economics from Paris X University and an MSc in management from HEC Paris.
Director of Macroeconomic Studies, CAF
Adriana Arreaza Coll is Director of Macroeconomic Studies at CAF, Development Bank of Latin America. She coordinates the team of country economists and contributes to CAF’s research publications. She was Acting Chief Economist and Knowledge Manager at CAF. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas. She previously worked at the Research Department of the Central Bank of Venezuela. She received her BA in Economics at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas and her Ph.D. in Economics at Brown University.
Lead Specialist in the IDB’s Fiscal Division
Óscar Valencia is a Lead Specialist in the IDB’s Fiscal Division. Prior to this, Óscar was General Director of Macroeconomic Policy at the Colombian Ministry of Finance. He has served as technical secretary of the Independent Committee for Fiscal Rule in Colombia and as a member of several boards of directors in Colombian companies such as Colpensiones (The Colombian public pension system) and Coljuegos (The Colombian regulator of games of chance). He has also served as Acting Director of Fogafin (The Guarantee Fund for Financial Institutions). He also worked as a researcher at the Banco de la República and the Colombian National Planning Department. Prior to that, he was a consultant in the IDB’s Research Department. His research agenda focuses on fiscal policy and macroeconomics mainly in emerging economies. He has published in different academic publications on topics related to macroeconomic policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics with honors from the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), a Master’s in Mathematical Economics from the same university and a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Economics, with honors, from the National University of Colombia.
Senior Economist, AMRO
Dr. Byunghoon Nam is a Senior Economist, responsible for conducting the fiscal sector surveillance for the ASEAN+3 region. He also supports the country surveillance work for Korea and the Philippines. In 2020-2021, he was the desk economist for Lao PDR.
Prior to joining AMRO, Dr. Nam worked at the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Korea from 2003 to 2019 in Economic Policy Bureau, Budget Office, International Finance Bureau, and Policy Coordination Bureau. At the Ministry, he conducted extensive economic analysis, from micro to macro level, across a wide arrange of areas, including economic growth, employment, labor relations, and inflation. He also organized and edited the “Korea Economic Outlook.” Regarding the fiscal sector, he was responsible for formulating the budget for several line ministries, drafting the National Fiscal Management Plan, and implementing the Fiscal Management Reforms. In AMRO, he contributed to the Annual Consultation Report on Lao PDR, Korea, and the Philippines, and several research projects as a single-author or co-author, including “Public Infrastructure Investment and Macroeconomic Impact in ASEAN+3 Economies,” “Policy Considerations in Using Tax Incentives for Foreign Investment” and “Now What? Post-Pandemic Policy Consideration.”
Chief of public credit and international affairs, Finance Ministry of Mexico
María del Carmen Bonilla has been Head of the Public Credit and International Affairs Unit at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit since September 2021. In this position, she has obtained various awards for leading the development of curves in sustainable local currency and foreign currency. Previously she served as General Director of Debt Issuance in the same office, where she was in charge of managing the Federal Government’s public debt portfolio.
María del Carmen has been in the financial sector for more than 16 years. She held the position of Investment Manager at the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) from April 2019 to July 2020. In the private banking sector, she held different managing positions as a Derivates and Cash Trader for 11 years.
María del Carmen Bonilla has a degree in Corporate Finance and Banking from the School of Actuary of the Universidad Anáhuac del Sur. She has current certification by the the Mexican Association of Securities Intermediaries (AMIB) and is a member of the International Society of Female Professionals (ISFP).
Head of Economic Risk Analysis at the European Stability Mechanism (ESM)
General Director of Macroeconomic Policy at the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru.
Economist with experience in the design, evaluation and implementation of economic policy and financial performance analysis at the level of financial institutions and the financial system. I am the General Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Fiscal Decentralization of the Ministry of Economy and Finance since December 2021. I was head of the Monetary Statistics area of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) and leading specialist in the preparation of the Financial Stability report. Finally, I participated in courses and seminars on credit risks, financial stress tests to measure risks and financial stability, and monetary and fiscal policy in national and foreign institutions.
Chief Economist at FLAR
He has worked at FLAR since 2004, where he has also been Director of Research and Development, Deputy Director of Economic Studies, International Economist and Junior Economist. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universidad del Rosario, a master’s degree in Environmental Economics and Natural Resources from the Universidad de los Andes and the University of Maryland, a master’s degree in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidad de Antioquia. He has been a professor at these last two universities.
Deputy Head of the Economic Risk Analysis, ESM
Marialena Athanasopoulou is Deputy Head of the Economic Risk Analysis division at the ESM. On leave from the ESM, she worked as Special Secretary for Private Debt Management at the Greek Ministry of Finance in 2022.
She previously worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund. She was also a visiting professor at the Department of Economics at the Athens University of Economic and Business.
Marialena holds a PhD in Economics from University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and Masters’ degrees in Economics and Business Mathematics from University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and the Athens University of Economic and Business.
Marialena’s research field is international macroeconomics, with a focus on debt sustainability analysis and sovereign debt restructuring.
Lead economist and group head of the fiscal surveillance group at the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO)
Dr. Seung Hyun (Luke) Hong is the lead economist and group head of the fiscal surveillance group at the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO). He leads a team of economists who undertake macroeconomic and fiscal surveillance of member countries, providing support to other country teams on fiscal sector issues in their country surveillance.
Dr. Hong’s expertise includes fiscal policy, public financial management, macro-fiscal analysis, and regional economies. As a fiscal sector expert, he has been involved in many public policy consultations on various fiscal issues for ASEAN+3 member economies. Prior to joining AMRO in 2015, Dr. Hong served as the head of the Centre for Fiscal Analysis at the Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF), a leading research institution in public finance in Korea.
He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in the US and his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Seoul National University in Korea.
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