Economic Research Works Senior Management Office

To lead scientific and technical activities in the macroeconomic, financial, monetary and banking fields, as well as studies and research work on these aspects at domestic and international level. To lead the development and implementation of a wide range of economic and econometric models for macroeconomic analysis and policy decision-making processes.

Sebastián Katz |Senior Manager

Sebastián Katz holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and a master’s degree in Economic Policy from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).

Before holding up his current position at the BCRA, he served as Economic Research Senior Manager and, before that, as Outlook Analysis Senior Manager.

In the public sector, he was Deputy Minister of Economy, Secretary of Economic Policy at the Argentine Ministry of Economy (2019), and Undersecretary of Macroeconomic Programming (2004-2005). During 2019 and the 2004-2005 period, he also held office as representative of the Minister of Economy before the Board of the BCRA. In addition, he served as Undersecretary of Finance at the Ministry of Economy of the Province of Buenos Aires (2016-2018). He worked as Coordinator at the Strategic Planning and Economic Studies Management Office, and Chief Economist at Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.

As regards consulting services and research work, he was hired as a researcher at the Centre for the Study of State and Society (Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad, CEDES), and as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

He is the Director of the undergraduate program in Economics at UBA, Professor of Money, Credit and Banking and Economics in the Common Basic Course at UBA. He has given undergraduate and graduate courses at different public universities in Argentina, Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSa), and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT). Moreover, he is an Associate Academic Director at the Capital Market Specialization Course UBA-Merval