Alfonso Prat Gay is an Argentine economist and politician. He was Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina 2002-04 and is a candidate forNational Deputy for the Civic Coalition in the 2009 elections.
Prat Gay graduated in economics from the Universidad Católica Argentina in 1989 and gained his Masters in 1994 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a PhD candidate.[1]
In 1994, Prat Gay joined JPMorgan in New York and went on to work for the bank in its Buenos Aires and London offices until 2001. He co-founded APL Economía, an economic consulting firm.
In December 2002, Prat Gay was named Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina at just 37 years old, serving until September 2004.[2] He won the 2004 Euromoney Central Bank Governor of the Year award for his work.[3] He fulfilled its mandate and did not accept the offer from president Kirchner to have another term of six years due to disagreements with the president about the independence of the Central Bank and the anti-inflationary policies.
Prat Gay is Chairman of Tilton Capital, an asset management company. He is President of Fundación Andares para el desarrollo de las Microfinanzas.
Prat Gay joined the Civic Coalition of Elisa Carrió and was named as Carrió's choice for economy minister had she won the 2007 presidential election.[1] He has been confirmed as the head of the Coalition's list for Buenos Aires City in the 2009 elections for the lower house.[4]
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