Argentina and Debt Restructuring

Argentina now confronts new challenges in its long, cyclical history of economic booms and sovereign default. Gregory Makoff has recently published a definitive treatment of its travails over debt, a book entitled, . Please join the Department of Politics, Governance, and Economics as Dr. Makoff presents his book and discusses the prospects for President Javier Milei's strategy to revive the economy and render chronic financial crises a problem of the past for Argentina.

Gregory Makoff is the author of Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring. Prior to writing the book Gregory was an investment banker specializing in liability management and debt restructuring (1993-2014) and worked as a Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Treasury (2015-2016). Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and, since 2015, has been a non-resident senior fellow writing about sovereign debt at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), a think tank based in Waterloo Canada. Gregory holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago (1993) and B.Sc. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in physics and political science (1986). Gregory is also a CFA® charter holder.

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