Economist from the University of Buenos Aires and from New York University (NYU). He was Secretary of Industry and Trade and Under-Secretary of Foreign Trade in Argentine National Government, General Manager of the Argentine National Commission for Foreign Trade and Chief-Economist of the Argentine Competition Policy Commission. He was an instructor for WTO’s trainning missions on trade and member of WTO’s panels and professor in various Argentine universities. Currently, he is professor and researcher at Instituto Universitario Escuela Argentina de Negocios (IUEAN). He is also international consultant (FAO, IDB) and member of the editorial committee of IANAS Food and Nutrition Security for the Americas program. His current research work deals with international trade, industrial policy, climate change, food security and economic history.