Ignacio Munyo

Ignacio Munyo (Montevideo; January 23, 1980) is a Uruguayan economist, columnist, and scholar. 
Since June 2020, he is the Executive Director (CEO) of the Center for the Study of Economic and Social Affairs (CERES, its initials in Spanish). CERES is the main Think Tank of Uruguay and the second one of Latin America in Interdisciplinary Research, according to the University of Pennsylvania.
He is also Professor of Economics at the University of Montevideo (Uruguay), board member of the Bolsa de Valores de Montevideo Stock Exchange (Uruguay), and columnist of newspaper El País (Uruguay)El País (Uruguay).
He is member of the Economy National Academy (Uruguay) and the National Research System (Uruguay).
Dr. Munyo has more than 20 years of experience working with Latin America Macroeconomics, Financial and Social Issues. He was Business Consultant of Grant Thornton International (Uruguay and Paraguay), Senior and Junior Economist at CERES (Uruguay); Nonresident Fellow at Brookings Institution (US)Brookings Institution (US); Consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank (US), the World Bank (US), and to the Organization of American States (US); and Research Assistant at the University of Chicago (US). He was also Treasurer of the Uruguayan Economic Association.
He has several scientific publications in leading scientific journals such as the Review of Economic Dynamics (US), The Journal of Public Economics (UK), The Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (Netherlands), Kyklos International Review for Social Sciences (Switzerland), The Management Review (Spain), The Innovation Journal (Canada), and The Scandinavian Journal of Economics (Sweden), among others. 
He is author of the book La Revolución de los Humanos/El Futuro del Trabajo, published by Penguin Random House, where he analyzes the challenges of the Future of Work from a human perspective. 
He received the Raul Trajtenberg National Prize in Economics 2014 from the University of the Republic of Uruguay, and the Uruguayan National Academy of Economics Prize 2007.
== Biography ==
Ignacio Munyo was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on January 23 of 1980. He studied Economics and Management in the University of the Republic (Uruguay)|University of the Republic of Uruguay where he graduated from a bachelor program in Management (2001) and in the licentiate program in Economics (2003). He then got fellowships for the University of Chicago (US) and the University of San Andrés|University of St. Andrews (Argentina) to continue his graduate studies, and he obtained the Master of Arts in Economics (2007) and the Ph.D. in Economics (2012).
He also graduated from the Think Tank Leadership Program at Atlas Network (US), from the Senior Management Program at IEEM Business School at the Universidad de Montevideo (Uruguay) and in the Global Colloquium of Participant-Centered Learning (Executive Education) at Harvard University (US).
He is married with Licentiate Valentina de Yeregui (Montevideo, December 12, 1979); who was the tennis teacher of Malia and Sasha Obama, daughters of the US President Barack Obama. ​
His direct family genealogy includes General Lucas Píriz, French poetry Jules Supervielle, and former Uruguayan President Baltasar Brum.
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