“Martín Redrado is a hero among the world's central bankers. Based on his principles he refused to bow to intense political pressure to promote irresponsible policies, which ended his career as president of the Argentine Central Bank."
Alan Greenspan
Martín Redrado is a rare blend of thinker and international policy maker, specialized in emerging markets.
Redrado is one of the most recognized economists in Latin America. His policies helped protect the Argentine economy during the international financial crisis of 2008-2009. His character and integrity brought him to the front pages of the international media, when President Cristina Kirchner tried to remove him from office for refusing to transfer reserves to the Bicentennial Fund.
From 2016 to 2018 he served as Senior Economic Advisor of the World Bank for emerging markets, based in Washington DC. Since 2019, he is also Director of the Master in Central Banking at the Asia Business School (Kuala Lumpur).
Redrado graduated from Harvard University with a Master's Degree in Administration, he specialized in finance and international economics, and the first steps of his professional career were developed as a member of Jeffrey Sachs' team in the implementation of the Bolivian stabilization program.
During the following 5 years he worked in the United States, where he stood out for his performance at Salomon Brothers, where he advised on the privatization and placement of shares of British Airways, British Gas and Compagnie Financière de Suez and participated in the organization of the first placement with Warrants of a Spanish company in the international market. He was Managing Director of Security Pacific Bank, and from there he directed the organization of the Shared Ownership Program for Enersis workers; the placement of Eurobonds of the main Mexican private companies in the international capital market and advice on the restructuring of Telefonos de México.
Parallel to the consolidation of his successful career in the private sector, he was summoned on different occasions by the national government of Argentina, to occupy public positions. In 1991 he was named President of the National Securities Commission, where among other achievements, he organized the new regulatory structure of the Argentine capital market. He was chairman of the Emerging Markets Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). In 1994 he founded the Capital Foundation, an entity dedicated to economic research and the design of public policies where he served as Chief Economist until 2001. Between January 2002 and September 2004 he served as Secretary of Commerce and International Economic Relations, being Responsible for a new strategy to open world markets to Argentine production.
President of the Committee for the Americas of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements of Basel 2008-2010. From 2004 until January 2010, he led the economic affairs of his country, as President of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic.
Redrado is the author of the books, “Argentina First: Getting the Country Up and Running After the Pandemic (2020), “The Pending Accounts” (2015), “Sin Reservas” (translated into English “No Reserves” – Amazon Crossing) (2010 ), "Export to grow" (2003), "How to survive globalization" (1999), and "Time of Challenges" (1995).
His impeccable professional career and his fresh and dynamic style make this economist one of the great opinion leaders in Latin America.
