Arturo C. Porzecanski is a Uruguayan-born economist who has spent his entire adult life in the United States. Early life Born (November 2, 1949) and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, of European Jewish immigrant parents, Porzecanski came to the United States in early 1968 and earned his B.A. degree in economics at Whittier College (1968-1971) and then his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Pittsburgh (1971-1975). Financial industry career After a summer internship as a visiting economist at the International Monetary Fund (1973), and a year-and-a-half stint as a research economist at the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies in Mexico City (1975–76), he began his Wall Street career as an international economist and country risk analyst at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, one of the forerunners of today's JP Morgan Chase (1977-1989). He went on to become the chief economist at Republic National Bank of New York (1989-1992); chief emerging-markets economist at Kidder, Peabody & Co. (1992-1993); chief economist for the Americas at ING Group (1994-2000); and chief economist for emerging markets at ABN AMRO (2000-2005). He was recognized in 2005 for his outstanding professional accomplishments on Wall Street and named a “Legacy Laureate” by his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh. Academia, think tanks and related Porzecanski opened up a second act in his professional career in mid-2005 by becoming a full-time university professor of international economics, a shift in professional direction that was part of a generational handover by Wall Street pioneers in emerging-markets research who had also taken early retirement and started out on new career paths. Having taught economics on an adjunct basis at Columbia University and New York University, he was a visiting professor of economics at Williams College in Spring 2005. He was appointed to the faculty of the School of International Service at American University as of Fall 2005, first as Scholar of International Finance and then, as of Fall 2007, as Distinguished Economist in Residence. In 2012, he was also named Director of the International Economic Relations M.A. degree program at SIS, a position held until August 2018. In mid-2021, after sixteen years, Porzecanski retired from his full-time faculty appointment. Besides devoting himself to teaching, mentoring and policy-oriented research in his field, Porzecanski has provided expert-witness and other consulting services to law firms and institutional investors, as well as to U.S. government agencies and multilateral organizations.