Martín Redrado Governor, Banco Central de la

Martín Redrado
Governor, Banco Central de la República Argentina
He is a rare blend of thinker, investment banker, and government policy-maker.
He is the former Chairman of Argentina’s Securities and Exchange Commission, former
Secretary of State for Technical Education and former Secretary of Trade and
International Economic Relations in Argentina.
The Harvard educated Redrado is an expert on global business/economic issues and
founder of Fundación Capital, a think tank. As Chief Economist of the Fundación Capital,
Redrado has created a Center of Economic Research that provides member corporations
with current research on trends and prospects in the global economy.
Graduated of the JFK School of Government at Harvard, Redrado worked in Salomon
Brothers as financial advisor in the privatization of British Airways, British Gas and
Compagnie Financiere de Suez (France) as well as international stock offerings. He later
became managing director of International Corporate Finance for Security Pacific Bank
where he structured the placement of Eurobonds for major Mexican corporations,
developed asset-backed securities for Mexico’s public electrical agency, and swapped
over $2 billion in LDC debt for equity in Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Mexico.
He is author, among other publications, of Cómo sobrevivir a la Globalización (2002),
edited by Prentice Hall, and Exportar para Crecer (2003), edited by Grupo Planeta. He
was an advisor to the governments of Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia and Russia.