DEMIAN REIDEL

Argentine economist and physicist whose career spans fundamental research, capital markets, central banking, and the design of national infrastructure.

Trained in physics at the Instituto Balseiro in Bariloche, completed an MS in Financial Mathematics at the University of Chicago, and earned a PhD in Economics at Harvard, where his dissertation was supervised by Kenneth Rogoff — who has publicly described him as his best student.

Worked in emerging-markets research and strategy at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, then co-founded QFR Capital Management, a global-macro hedge fund managing over $3 billion.

Between 2015 and 2018, served as Second Vice President of the Banco Central de la Republica Argentina, where he sat on the Monetary Policy Committee during Argentina's first inflation-targeting regime and led the G20 Finance Track during the country's 2018 presidency.

As Chair of the Presidential Council of Advisors from 2024 to 2025, he was the architect of the Argentine Nuclear Plan, announced at Casa Rosada with the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi. He served as President of Nucleoelectrica Argentina, the state operator of the country's three nuclear power plants.

Currently a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School. Co-author with President Javier Milei of two papers introducing the Scale Impact Assessment (SIA) framework.