Federico Sturzenegger is the governor of the Central Bank of Argentina. Prior to his current role, he served as a national deputy and was the president of the Bank of the City of Buenos Aires. From 1995 to 1998, Sturzenegger was the chief economist of YPF. In addition to authoring many books and articles related to international finance and macroeconomics, he has been a visiting professor of public affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, dean of the business school at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and assistant professor of economics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2005, Sturzenegger was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He earned his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a degree in economics from the National University of La Plata in Argentina.