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Ph.D. in Economics, University of Washington
Master in International and Development Economics, Yale University
President, UTDT
Email: rectorado@utdt.edu
Tel.: (+54 11) 5169 7178/ 7267
Juan J. Cruces is the President of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) and a Full Professor of financial economics at UTDT´s Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington, and an M.A. in International and Development Economics from Yale University. Previously, he served as Director of the Center for Financial Research, Dean of the Business School, and Chair of the Master’s in Finance program at UTDT. He has also been a visiting professor at ESCP-EAP European School of Management in Paris and at the American University of Paris. Professor Cruces is a frequent winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award, voted annually by each student cohort at the end of their program.
He specializes in Financial Economics, with an emphasis on issues related to Emerging Markets. His work has been published in the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Emory International Law Review, the Emerging Markets Review, and by Stanford University Press, and Fondo de Cultura Económica.
He has been a consultant to private, public, and financial institutions, including the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Chilean Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He has acted as an expert witness in cases brought before Economic (white-collar) Crime Courts and the Argentine SEC. Prior to becoming President of UTDT, he frequently spoke at business forums and appeared on television and radio programs. His research has been cited in leading global media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Roubini Global Economics, Financial Times, Le Temps (Switzerland), Nikkei Shimbun (Japan), Die Welt and Handelsblatt (Germany), El País and El Economista (Spain), El Comercio (Peru), América Economía and La Tercera (Chile), La Nación, Clarín, El Cronista, Página 12, Ámbito Financiero (Argentina), among others.