Ernesto Talvi is Senior Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute.

He has been Director of the Economic and Social Policy in Latin America Initiative at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.; Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York; Founding Member of the Latin American Committee for Macroeconomic & Financial Affairs (CLAAF); Director of the Center for the Study of Economic & Social Affairs (CERES) in Montevideo, Uruguay; and Chief Economist at the Central Bank of Uruguay.

In 2018 he entered politics, founding the liberal-progressive “Ciudadanos (Citizens)” movement within the Colorado Party. He was a presidential candidate, elected Senator and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay. He retired from political life in 2021.

He holds a PhD in Economics and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Economics from the Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay.

Research areas: Global and Emerging Markets Macroeconomics; Latin American Macroeconomics & Politics; inflation stabilization programs; fiscal policy; international capital flows and financial crises.