GPS General Coordinator. Agricultural Engineer. He received the Magíster Scientiae in Agricultural Economics and completed the Third Cycle of the Doctorate Course at the University of Paris – Sorbonne. He is Academic Director and Professor of the Graduate Agribusiness Course at the Centro de Educación Empresaria of Universidad de San Andrés. He is Professor of the Master’s Course on Agribusiness and Food at FAUBA. and Academic Director of the Grain Exchange Training Program. He was Scientific Advisor of Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research) –CONICET and Alternate Member of the Managing Committee of the School of Agriculture of the University of Buenos Aires. He has acted as consultant to Argentine and international organizations (UNDP, OAS, ECLAC, IICA, IDB, WORLD BANK, IFAD, the European Commission, FAO, USAID, CIMMYT and CIAT). He was manager of agricultural companies. He also held the position of Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Argentina on two occasions, as well as of Secretary of Industry, Trade and Mining. He was Argentina’s Alternate Negotiator at the Uruguay Round of GATT. He is a member of Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (Argentine Council for International Relations) and of the Scientific Council of the FARM Foundation in Paris- France. He has served as Vice Chair of the International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC-Washington DC). He was Chairman of Asociación Argentina de Economía Agraria (Argentine Association for Agricultural Economics) and Chairman of Asociación de Latinoamérica y el Caribe de Economistas Agrícolas (Association of Agricultural Economists of Latin America and the Caribbean). He has authored more than 60 papers published in local and international media; 12 of which are part of books specializing in Food Security, Economic History, Biotechnology, Bioeconomics, Agricultural Economics, Technological Policy, Policy on Science and Agricultural Technology, Livestock, Agroindustrial Systems, Investments and Grain Trade.
