Lucio Castro is Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and consultant for international organizations based in Washington DC. Previously, he was Alternate Executive Director for Argentina and Haiti at the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB). Prior to that position, he served as Vice-Minister in the Ministry of Production of Argentina. He was also Director of Economic Development at CIPPEC, one of the principal think tanks in Latin America, and Practice Leader at Maxwell Stamp PLC, a leading economic consulting firm, in London, UK. He also worked in Emerging Markets´s finance at Morley Fund Management in London. He was visiting scholar at the Center for International Development (CID) in Harvard University and received the Fullbright Nexus Scholarship. He is  Affiliated Researcher at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).  He holds a Phd in Economics from the University of Sussex in UK and a Masters from the Program in Economic Policy Management at Columbia University.