Marcos Buscaglia

Founding Partner, Alberdi Partners

Marcos Buscaglia holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, has a graduate degree in economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and a degree in economics from the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA). He received the gold medal for the best student in his class in Economics at UCA, was a fellow of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange Foundation and also received a Fulbright scholarship.

Buscaglia was for five years chief Latin America economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York. In that role, he advised investment funds and major companies in the world on the economic and political developments in Latin America. Upon his arrival at the bank, he re-structured the Latin America Economics team and positioned it as number # 1 in the 2015 Institutional Investor rankings (from # 8 in 2010, before his arrival to the bank). This ranking is based on the vote of 915 investors who have $691 billion of assets under management dedicated to Latin America. He also earned the # 1 position in Argentina (unranked before his arrival) and # 4 in Chile (unranked before his arrival) in the Institutional Investor rankings.

Buscaglia also served as chief economist for Latin America at Citibank in New York, and as chief economist for the Southern Cone countries at Citibank, based in Buenos Aires. He also worked at Goldman Sachs in New York, was a visiting professor at several universities in Latin America, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Previously he was the Dean of Graduate Business Programs at the University of San Andrés, where he managed the launch of the Master of Business Administration (MBA). There he taught International Finance, and Strategy and Competitiveness. Previously he was a professor of Finance and Economics at IAE Business School, Universidad Austral. Before beginning his doctoral studies he worked in the studio of Dr. Ricardo Arriazu in Buenos Aires.

He has published numerous scholarly articles on macroeconomics and international economics and has presented at conferences of the World Bank, the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives, the Emerging Markets Traders Association (EMTA) and the Americas Society / Council of the Americas, among many others. He is coauthor of the books The integration of Argentina in the world and Los Beneficios de la Libertad (forthcoming), and has published articles and interviews in newspapers such as the Financial Times, La Nación, Clarín, El Mercurio (Chile) and Valor Económico (Brazil), among many others.