Silvana Tenreyro

{{short description|British-Argentine economist}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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María Silvana Tenreyro (born 6 September 1973{{cite web|title=Silvana Tenreyro — Curriculum Vitae|url=http://personal.lse.ac.uk/TENREYRO/curriculum.pdf|website=London School of Economics|accessdate=1 September 2017}}) is a British-Argentine economist who is professor of economics at the London School of Economics and was an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from July 2017 to July 2023. She was president of the European Economic Association for 2021.{{Cite web|title=Executive Committee {{!}} EEA|url=https://www.eeassoc.org/governance/executive-committee|access-date=2021-01-07|website=www.eeassoc.org}}

She graduated with a BA (summa cum laude) from the National University of Tucumán, Argentina, in 1997, followed by an MA and a PhD in economics at Harvard University, where she was supervised by Robert Barro, Alberto Alesina and Kenneth Rogoff.

She was appointed to a three-year term on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee from July 2017,{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40325018|title=Silvana Tenreyro appointed to Monetary Policy Committee|publisher=BBC News |date=19 June 2017}} and was reappointed for a second term from July 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2020/march/professor-silvana-tenreyro-reappointed-to-the-mpc|title=Professor Silvana Tenreyro reappointed to the Monetary Policy Committee|date=27 March 2020}} She has been a professor of economics at the London School of Economics. She worked at the US Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2002 to 2004 and at the Bank of Mauritius from 2012 to 2014.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/06/19/economics-professor-silvana-tenreyro-appointed-bank-england/|title=Economics professor Silvana Tenreyro appointed to Bank of England rate-setting panel|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=19 June 2017 |publisher=|last1=Wallace |first1=Tim }}

Tenreyro was elected fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in July 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/news/record-number-academics-elected-british-academy|title=Record number of academics elected to British Academy {{!}} British Academy|website=British Academy|language=en|access-date=2018-07-22}} In 2021 she was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society.{{cite web|url=https://www.econometricsociety.org/content/congratulations-our-2021-fellows|title=Congratulations to our 2021 Fellows|publisher=The Econometric Society|date=September 22, 2021|access-date=2021-10-29}} She has British, Italian and Argentine citizenships.

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to the economy.{{London Gazette|issue=64082|supp=y|page=B10|date=17 June 2023}}

For her academic work on Macroeconomics and International Economics, Tenreyro was awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2021), the Birgit Grodal Award (2022), the Banque de France and Toulouse School of Economics Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance (2021) and the Carl Menger Prize in Monetary Macroeconomics (2018). She was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of St. Gallen.

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