Panelists: The Global Economy

Thomas Trebat,
Managing Director and Head of the Latin America Team,
Citigroup

Thomas J. Trebat is a Managing Director and Head of the Latin America team in the Economic and Market Analysis department of Citigroup. The EMA team provides analysis of regional macroeconomic and political conditions and of investment opportunities in the global emerging markets.

Mr. Trebat has 21 years of experience in emerging market economics and finance, and is fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese. He joined Citicorp Securities in 1996 as the head of Emerging Market Research. Previously, as a senior international economist at Bankers Trust, he was involved in many aspects of country debt negotiations in Latin America. At the Ford Foundation, he served for four years as the Regional Director for Latin America and Caribbean Programs. At Chemical Bank, Mr. Trebat organized and directed the emerging markets research group.

He has a Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University and remains active in teaching and publishing. He is a member of the associate faculty at New York University, and is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. His book, Brazil's State-owned Enterprises: A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur, was published by Cambridge University Press.

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