Mr.Gabriel Lopetegui is a senior economist with more than thirty years of experience advising key players in international finance and economics, banks, lawmakers, politicians. Mr. Lopetegui has worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for approximately 20 years. His areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, macroeconomics, applied econometrics, and political economy. In his latest role as the Executive Director for IMF, he represented six countries across Latin America including, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay at the Executive Board. During his tenure at the IMF, Mr. Lopetegui  advised and represented the negotiations for the 2018 Stand-By Arrangement for Argentina, designed and successfully negotiated an IMF financial arrangement with Guatemala, led the design and negotiation of a macroeconomic adjustment program and an IMF financial arrangement with the Dominican Republic. Mr. Lopetegui has also delivered trainings to public sector officials on macroeconomic diagnostics, financial programming, and inclusive growth. He designed and delivered the first training course on Inclusive Growth by the IMF. Prior to joining the IMF, Mr. Lopetegui served as an Advisor to the President of the Central Bank of Argentina, leading the design of a banking supervision strategy, review of rating systems, frequency, and scope of evaluation of financial institutions. He advised the Secretary of Argentina’s Secretary of Treasury on fiscal policy issues, including taxation and macro-fiscal projections and coordinated the design of the 1998 Tax Reform Bill. Mr. Lopetegui has a Master of Arts in Economics from the Center of Macroeconomics Studies of Argentina.