Laura Jaitman is the G20 Finance Deputy at the Argentine Ministry of Treasury. In this role, Laura leads the G20 Finance Deputies under Argentina's G20 Presidency. Previously, she was an economist at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Her principal areas of research are the economics of crime, development economics, and political economy. Before joining the IDB, she worked for a decade as a consultant to the World Bank, the IDB, and J-PAL in the evaluation of public policies in different countries of Latin America. Jaitman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London. Her work was published in international peer reviewed journals such as the Economic Journal, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, among others.