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Joaquín Cottani is a director in LECG’s Washington, DC and Buenos Aires offices. He specializes in financial economics, international trade, and macroeconomics, and is a macroeconomic advisor to approximately fifty global investment banks and investment funds through LatinSource, a New York based network of independent consultants. Previously, Dr. Cottani was chief Latin American economist at Lehman Brothers and deputy director of the Mexico and Colombia departments at the World Bank. Between 1991 and 1997, Dr. Cottani held public office in Argentina, first as undersecretary of economic policy and, later, as undersecretary of finance and financial representative in the USA and Canada. In the 1980s, Dr. Cottani worked as a trade and finance economist in the World Bank and as senior economist in Instituto de Estudios Económicos sobre la Realidad Argentina y Latinoamericana (IEERAL), a leading Argentine think tank. Dr Cottani has a PhD in economics from Yale University (1984). He is the author of several economic papers published in academic and non-academic journals and an occasional columnist for Argentine newspapers. He has lectured at universities, including Yale, NYU, and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in both the US and Argentina. In 1994, the World Economic Forum selected Dr. Cottani as a Global Leader of Tomorrow. The GLT initiative was launched in 1993 "to identify young leaders from all parts of the world who will shape business, politics, public and non-for-profit sectors, the arts and academia in the next century." | 