MASTERCLASS
"The Future of Growth"
Is growth in the world accelerating or will it find a barrier that will lead to stagnation? Will energy become obsolete? Could a change in our energy sources change the geographical distribution of economic activity around the globe? If so, which areas would benefit and which areas would lose? How will AI change the landscape of our labor market? Will it increase labor demand or lead to a dystopian future? The changes over the next few decades will shape the landscape of the next century. In this class we will share the academic thinking on these challenging questions. As Logan Roy says in the popular series Succession: "You ask me about the future? The only real thing is the future. The past? The past is just a bunch of stories".
Location:
HEC Paris in Qatar - Msheireb, 2nd floor
Date:
Tuesday, 31 October 2023
Time:
6:00 - 8:00 PM
(Registration starts at 5:30 PM)
Upon registration, you will receive an email confirmation to your attendance.
Professor Federico Sturzenegger Full Professor at the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires. He is also Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Harvard´s Kennedy School of Government and teaches at HEC, Paris where he is Honoris Causa Professor.
In 2018 together with Gonzalo Lisarrague and funding from the canadian investor David Thomson he created a VC scouting office to search for local firms with a global potential. Latus view focuses primarily in the AgTech and Fintech ecosystems.
Between December 2015 and June 2018 he was Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina. His tenure had three main themes: macroeconomic stabilization, the development of the financial sector and an upgrade in the payments system.
In 2013 he ran for Congress as representative of the City of Buenos Aires. In the elections of that year he was elected with more than 600.000 votes.
In late 2007, Mauricio Macri was elected mayor of the City of Buenos Aires and offers him to become President of Banco Ciudad, a commercial bank owned by the city government. Banco Ciudad at the time had close to 2000 employees, but was making significant losses.
While at Di Tella he published with Eduardo Levy Yeyati a series of papers on exchange rate regimes that landed him a position as Visiting Professor at Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2005.
In 1998 in order to get closer to public policy he moves to Universidad Torcuato Di Tella as Dean of the Business School. Universidad Di Tella was at the time a young private university that with time became one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the country.
At the end of 1994, he was offered a position as Chief Economist of the group.
His first job was as Assistant Professor of Economics at University of California, Los Angeles. During this period his work focused on inflation, the political economy of reform, and international finance.
Professor Federico graduated in economics after 3 years and a half (standard time is 5/6 years). In 1991 he obtained his Ph.D in economics from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Professor Federico Sturzenegger
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina
Full Professor Universidad de San Andrés, Adjunct Professor Harvard Kennedy School and Honoris Causa Professor, HEC Paris
