Silvana Tenreyro
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Alma mater | Harvard University |
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Discipline | Economist |
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María Silvana Tenreyro CBE FBA (born 6 September 1973) is a British-Argentine economist who is professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee since July 2017. She served as the president of the European Economic Association for 2021.
She graduated with a BA (summa cum laude) from the National University of Tucumán, Argentina, in 1997, followed by an MA and a PhD in economics at Harvard University, where she was supervised by Robert Barro, Alberto Alesina and Kenneth Rogoff.
She was appointed to a three-year term on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee from July 2017, and was reappointed for a second term from July 2020. She has been a professor of economics at the London School of Economics. She worked at the US Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2002 to 2004 and at the Bank of Mauritius from 2012 to 2014.
Tenreyro was elected fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in July 2018. In 2021 she was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society. She has British, Italian and Argentine citizenships.
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to the economy.
For her academic work on Macroeconomics and International Economics, Tenreyro was awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2021), the Birgit Grodal Award (2022), the Banque de France and Toulouse School of Economics Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance (2021) and the Carl Menger Prize in Monetary Macroeconomics (2018). She was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of St Gallen.
- Living people
- National University of Tucumán alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Academics of the London School of Economics
- Argentine economists
- Argentine women economists
- Fellows of the British Academy
- 1973 births
- Fellows of the European Economic Association
- Fellows of the Econometric Society
- British economists
- British women economists
- Argentine emigrants to England
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Argentine people stubs