About us - Graciana del Castillo
Bio
Graciana del Castillo is an expert in countries in crisis−both in emerging economies experimenting financial, banking or fiscal crises and undergoing stabilization and structural reform, and in countries coming out of war and embarking on economic reconstruction. She focused on these countries when she was the first senior economist in the Cabinet of the UN Secretary-General (SG) in the early 1990’s, involved in ongoing operations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. She continued working on countries in crises, mostly in Latin America but also in Russia, at the IMF; participated in jump-starting Kosovo’s economy as the Economic Policy Adviser to Bernard Kouchner, the SG’ Special Representative; and moderated, at the invitation of the IMF, a major donors’ meeting on Timor-Leste in Prague. She was a director for Latin American sovereign ratings at S&P’s, a senior consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank; a visiting scholar at the OECD Development Center; and an advisor to the private sector, including international banks, on Latin America. She has also been a participant in USAID bids for reconstruction projects in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has participated in large projects with the Asian Development Bank and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. She is a founding partner of the Macroeconomic Advisory Group and the Centennial Group Latin America.With a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University (1986), she has been Adjunct Professor there since 1990 and is now research scholar and associate director of the Center of Capitalism and Society. Her articles have appeared in top economic and political journals, including Foreign Policy, Global Governance, World Development, and the Journal of International Money and Finance. Her press articles have appeared, often more than once, in over 50 of the leading newspapers worldwide in more than a dozen languages. Her book on Rebuilding War-Torn State: The Challenge of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction will be published by Oxford University Press in September 2008.