Silvana Tenreyro

Silvana Tenreyro is Professor in Economics at the London School of Economics.

She obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

She is currently a Co-Director and Board Member of the Review of Economic Studies and Chair of the Women’s Committee of the Royal Economics Society. In the past, Tenreyro worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and served as external MPC member for the Central Bank of Mauritius; she was Director of Macroeconomics Programme at the International Growth Centre, Chair of the Women in Economics Committee of the European Economic Association, Member at Large of the European Economic Association, Panel Member for Economic Policy, and Associate Editor for JEEA, the Journal of Monetary Economics, Economica, and the Economic Journal.

She is a Lead Academic at the Centre for Macroeconomics, and Research Associate at CEP and CEPR.

Her main research interests are Macroeconomic Development and Monetary Policy.

Recent publications include “Technological Diversification” (AER), “The Timing of Monetary Policy Shocks” (AER), and “Volatility and Development” (QJE).