Graciana Del Castillo

Graciana del Castillo is an expert on countries in crises-both financial and post-conflict. She was the first senior economist in the Cabinet of the UN Secretary-General in the early 1990s, involved in ongoing post-conflict operations in Central America, Asia, and Africa. She continued work on countries at war or post-conflict at the IMF, participated in jump-starting Kosovos economy, and moderated a major donors meeting on Timor-Leste in Prague. She was a director at S&Ps and the Centennial...See more

Graciana del Castillo is an expert on countries in crises-both financial and post-conflict. She was the first senior economist in the Cabinet of the UN Secretary-General in the early 1990s, involved in ongoing post-conflict operations in Central America, Asia, and Africa. She continued work on countries at war or post-conflict at the IMF, participated in jump-starting Kosovos economy, and moderated a major donors meeting on Timor-Leste in Prague. She was a director at S&Ps and the Centennial Group, a senior consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, a visiting scholar at the OECD Development Center, and a participant in USAID bids for reconstruction projects in Afghanistan and Iraq. She is a founding partner of the Macroeconomic Advisory Group. With a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University (1986), she has been adjunct professor there since 1990 and is now research scholar and associate director of the Center on Capitalism and Society. Her articles have appeared in top economic and political journals and newspapers worldwide. See less