The Financial Times reported happily on the IMF naming Silvana Tenreyro as its next chief economist. The FT described the British-Italian-Argentine citizen as a “former Bank of England policymaker… now a professor at the London School of Economics… (She) will be responsible for providing the institution with guidance on the design of its economic bailouts and directly advising the managing director.”
Tenreyro holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard University, and “she