Alumnus and Uruguayan economist Arturo Porzecanski '71 was recently featured in the economics section of the Uruguayan newspaper, El País to discuss his opinion regarding the Uruguayan government’s missed opportunity to initiate structural reforms in Uruguay’s struggling economy.
Porzacanski graduated from Whittier College with a degree in Economics and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked as an international economist on Wall Street. Porzecanski is a lifetime member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of the Tinker Foundation, and a consultant to government agencies, multilateral institutions, and private companies.
Porzazanski has also been a professor of economics for a number of prestigious universities including Columbia University and New York University. Porzacanski is currently the economics and international finance professor and director of the Program on International Economic Relations at the American University in Washington D.C.
Read the El País article here.
