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Hugo Perea
Hugo Perea
BBVA Research - Chief Economist

Hugo Perea is an economist with a MSc degree in Economics by the London School of Economics, UK. Hugo has also attended several courses and seminars at international institutions as the IMF, the World Bank and the Federal Reserve.


He joined BBVA Group in May 2004, and currently he is the Chief Economist at Peru for BBVA Research. Before joining BBVA, Hugo worked at the Central Bank of Peru for more than 11 years, and there he was the Head of the Departments of Analysis and Financial Programming and of Econometric Models, areas directly involved with the monetary policy design. Also, as part of his experience in the public sector, Hugo was a member of the Board of the Tax Administration Service from 2011 to 2014.


On the academic side, Hugo teaches courses on Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory and Financial Crises in the most important Peruvian universities and has published papers on these subjects.

Latest publications

Authorizing a new withdrawal (the seventh) of pension funds is a bad idea: it benefits high-income members, will induce higher rates and will leave millions without any support to cope with old age.
In March, the Big Data Consumption and Investment Indicators anticipate that domestic demand will have recovered in the first quarter of the year.
Economic activity will rebound this year as the negative shocks that affected it in 2023 revert and the environment for private sector spending improves. Output is expected to grow 2,7%, higher than our three-months-ago forecast (2,0%), as weather anomalies related to the coastal El NiƱo phenomenon have been less intense.