Dr. Demian Reidel currently serves as inaugural Chairman of the Council of Advisors of the President of Argentina. Previously, Dr. Reidel was Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School from 2019-2020; Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina from December 2015-June 2018, where he represented the Central Bank at the G20; and co-founded QFR Capital Management, a NY-based hedge fund.
Dr. Reidel was Senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School from January 2019-February 2020. This program brings distinguished professionals from government, business, and academia to Harvard Kennedy School to strengthen the connection between theory and practice through research and student engagement.
During his tenure as Deputy Governor and member of the Board of the Central Bank of Argentina from 2015 until 2018, Dr. Reidel was appointed as part of the new leadership of the Central Bank upon President Macri’s election. He was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, which for the first time in Argentina’s history designed and implemented an inflation target regime with a flexible exchange rate. As a member of the Board, he oversaw the Central Bank’s prudential oversight responsibilities, including regulation of financial institutions. During his tenure, Dr. Reidel also served as the representative of the Central Bank at the G20. In this role, he designed the priorities of the G20 Finance Track during Argentina’s presidency of the G20 in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance.
In April 2007, Dr. Reidel co-founded and was a principal portfolio manager at QFR, a New York City-based global macro hedge fund specializing in FX, fixed income and credit investments. QFR grew over $3 billion in assets under management during his tenure. Before founding QFR, Dr. Reidel was a senior member of the Emerging Markets Research team at Goldman Sachs in New York City and London and, prior to that, he worked in a similar capacity at JP Morgan in New York City and Buenos Aires.
Dr. Reidel holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University in the fields of international economics and finance. He also holds an MS in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a BS and MS in Physics from Instituto Balseiro.