Iván Weigandi

Profile

I am a PhD in Economics at Leeds University Business School, where I was awarded the Leeds Doctoral Scholarship. I hold a BSc in Economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and an MS in Economic Development from the Universidad Nacional de General San Martín.

During my PhD, I participated as a research assistant and research fellow in multiple externally funded research projects related to currency risk and development finance, including “Enhancing MDB Capacity through Local Currency Lending” and “Currency Risk - Sharing Scheme for Scaling up Local-Currency Climate Finance in Developing Countries”, in collaboration with the Climate Policy Initiative and the Uganda Development Bank, among others.

Before my PhD, I worked at the credit rating agency Moody’s as a credit analyst for the banking, structured finance, and insurance sectors, and at the Argentinian insurance market regulator as an analyst. I also have extensive experience in independent macroeconomic and sectoral economic consulting. Additionally, I have been a coordinator for the YSI-INET Financial Stability Working Group since 2024.

I have taught extensively across economics and finance. At the University of Leeds, I was a teaching assistant for the Economic Perspectives & Controversies, Economic Theory and Applications for Finance, and Intermediate Macroeconomics modules. My previous lecturing experience includes Financial Engineering, Risk Management, and Introduction to Financial Markets at institutions including the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa and the Fundación de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Comerciales, as well as Economic and Social World History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

From March 2026, I will be joining ODI Global as a Research Fellow in "Macroeconomics, Financing and Global Shocks".

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Research interests

My research focuses on international macrofinance, particularly the role that financial institutions’ structures play in driving domestic and international macroeconomic conditions. I am also interested in the currency dimension of both funding and market risks, including their implications for development finance, and in the role of monetary policy and regulation in addressing the risks associated with these structures and fostering financial development.

My doctoral research conceptualizes the international monetary system as a network of interlocking balance sheets to examine how globally active banks shape macroeconomic outcomes and generate systemic shocks. Bridging macroeconomics, international political economy, and global finance, I investigate macroeconomic transmission mechanisms and external constraints. Empirically, I estimate the dynamic causal effects of banks’ leverage shocks on global liquidity using granular instrumental variables and instrumented principal components. Furthermore, I combine network and institutional analysis to uncover the systemic risks embedded in hierarchical US dollar funding fragilities.

Qualifications

• PhD in Economics from the University of Leeds, UK
• MSc in Economic Development from Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Argentina
• BA in Economics from Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina