Fernando Avalos joined the BIS in the Spring of 2011 as Senior Economist in the Economics for Latin America and the Caribbean group of the Monetary and Economics Department. He has previously served as economist for Banco Itaú, in charge of covering the four Southern Cone countries: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Prior to that he was at the Central Bank of Argentina, where he launched and directed a department concerned with monetary and financial modeling. He also worked as economic and financial consultant in NERA Economic Consulting (New York), and performed consulting duties for the Inter-American Development Bank and the Securities Commission of Perú, among others. Fernando holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from University of Chicago.
