7th Joint Regional Financing Arrangements Research Seminar – Social Events

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.