Lucio Castro is a Research Fellow at the Growth Lab  at Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID) and a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center. Previously, he was Alternate Executive Director for Argentina and Haiti at the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB). Prior to that position, he served as Vice Minister in the Ministry of Production of Argentina. He was also Director of Economic Development at CIPPEC, one of the principal think tanks in Latin America, and Practice Leader at Maxwell Stamp PLC, a leading economic consulting firm, in London, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Sussex and a Masters from Columbia University.