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Federico Forte is Principal economist of BBVA Research Argentina since October 2019. Prior to joining BBVA, he served as Advisor to the Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA), parliamentary advisor specialized in fiscal issues at the National Congress, and research assistant in the Economics Research team of HSBC Bank Argentina.
He has over 15 years of teaching experience in undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), focusing on Monetary Theory and Policy, Financial Markets, Macroeconomics, and Statistics. He holds a BA in Economics from UBA (Magna Cum Laude honors), where he achieved the highest GPA in his cohort, and a master's degree in Economics from the same university.He is currently responsible for monitoring Argentina’s monetary conditions and exchange rate dynamics, as well as inflation and public debt sustainability.