Events

Euro crisis and resilience

Luis Garicano and Luis de Guindos

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising the dialogue "Crisis and Resilience of the Euro. Proposals for strengthening the European monetary architecture" with the participation of Luis Garicano and Luis de Guindos. On the occasion of the presentation of the book "Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" by John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch and Luis Garicano.

Luis Garicano is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics. He began his academic career at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, where he obtained the rank of Senior Lecturer in Economics and Strategy after ten years on the faculty, and subsequently at the London School of Economics, where he has been a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Strategy in the school's Economics and Management Departments and Director of the Economics and Management Strategy Group. He has also been a visiting professor at other institutions, including MIT, Columbia Business School and the London Business School. He has held positions as an economist at the European Commission and at McKinsey & Company, where he has also been a professor at the FEDEA foundation. His research has appeared in leading international academic journals in economics including The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Political Economy, The American Economic Review y The Review of Economic Studies. For a few years, Garicano left academia and became an MEP between 2019 and August 2022. During his parliamentary mandate, he was vice-president of the Renew Europe Group, responsible for economic affairs, and vice-president of the European political party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Luis Garicano holds a degree in Economics and Law from the University of Valladolid, a Master's degree in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Master's and PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Luis de Guindos (Madrid, 16 January 1960) has been Vice-President of the European Central Bank since 2018. An economist by training, he holds a degree in Economics and Business Studies from CUNEF, where he obtained the extraordinary end-of-degree prize, and is a member of the State Corps of Commercial Technicians and Economists, of which he was number one in his promotion in 1984. He has an extensive career in the economic field, both in the public and private sectors. In the Spanish Government, he held the posts of Minister of Economy between 2011 and 2018, and before that he was Secretary of State for Economy, Secretary General for Economic Policy and Director General for Economic Policy. At the European level, he has served on the EU's Economic and Financial Affairs Council and was Vice-Chair of the EU's Economic Policy Committee. In the private sector, he has held senior positions in firms such as Lehman Brothers, Nomura Securities, PwC and IE Business School.

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