Bio
Martin Guzman is a CIGI senior fellow and is currently serving as Minister of Economy for Argentina. He is an expert on sovereign debt restructuring, with a specific interest in the sovereign debt crises in Argentina and Greece.
Martin is a research associate at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he is a member of the Institute for New Economic Thinking Research Group on Macroeconomic Instabilities and Inefficiencies, and a co-chair of Columbia University’s Initiative for Public Dialogue Taskforce on Debt Restructuring and Sovereign Bankruptcy. He is also associate professor at the University of Buenos Aires.
Martin holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University (Rhode Island), as well as a B.A. and an M.A. in economics from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, in Argentina. He has conducted extensive research on macroeconomics and debt crises, and has been published in several edited books and journals, including Life After Debt: The Origins and Resolutions of Debt Crises (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), Too Little, Too Late: The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises (Columbia University Press, 2016), Contemporary Issues in Macroeconomics: Lessons from The Crisis and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Toward a Just Society: Joseph Stiglitz and Twenty-First Century Economics (Columbia University Press, 2018).
Martin is a respected voice on sovereign debt crises. He has presented to researchers and practitioners around the world, including to groups at Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the United Nations in New York, among many others.