Andrew Powell is the Principal Advisor in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank. He holds a Ba, MPhil. and DPhil. (PhD) from the University of Oxford. Through 1994 he dedicated himself to academia in the United Kingdom as Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and Associate Professor (Lecturer) at London University and the University of Warwick. In 1995, he joined the Central Bank of Argentina and was named Chief Economist in 1996. In March 2001, he returned to academia, joining the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires as Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Finance. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the World Bank, IMF and Harvard University. He joined the IDB's Research Department in 2005 as Lead Research Economist, subsequently served as Regional Economic Advisor for the Caribbean Region before returning to the Research Department as the Principal Advisor. He has published numerous academic papers in leading economic journals in areas including commodity markets, risk management, the role of multilaterals, regulation, banking and international finance. He has been the coordinator of the IDB's Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report for several years, was the editor of the 2020 Development in the Americas IDB Flagship Report on infrastructure and a recent report on risks to banking systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
