Adolfo Diz
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Adolfo César Diz is an Argentine economist, former President of the Central Bank of Argentina from 2 April 1976 until 27 March 1981.
Mr. Diz holds a bachelor in Economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He went to study at the University of Chicago where he earned his master in 1957 and a PhD in Economics in 1966, being a pupil of Milton Friedman.
Between 1967 and 1968 he was an Executive Director in the International Monetary Fund. He then was appointed as the Financial Representative for Argentina in Europe (Geneva) until 1973. In 1974 he was director of the Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies(CEMLA), an institution that promotes a better understanding of monetary and banking matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the pertinent aspects of fiscal and exchange rate policies. He then returned in 1976 to his native Argentina and headed the Central Bank until 1981.
He began his teaching career at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. He also was professor at the Universidad Católica Argentina, Universidad de Belgrano, and Universidad de San Andrés. Nowadays, he is a member of the faculty of the Universidad del CEMA, where he teaches International Finance in the bacherlor in Economics.
As a consultant, he worked for the IMF, World Bank, Fondo Andino de Reservas and several latinamerican central banks. He also worked in almost all latinamerican countries, Africa, central and south Asia, and eastern Europe. In 1994 he was designated as a member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Economicas.
As a researcher, he has published several works on money supply and demand (University of Chicago), monetary supply (CEMLA, México), IMF Conditionality (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston), and fiscal impact measurement (IMF, Venezuela).
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| Preceded by Alfredo G. Cassino |
President of the Central Bank of Argentina 1976–1981 |
Succeeded by Julio José Gómez |
