Pierpaolo Barbieri

Pierpaolo Barbieri (Buenos Aires, May 17, 1987) is an economic historian, researcher, Executive Director at Greenmantle[1] and founder of Ualá,[2] an Argentina-based personal financial management mobile app. He is the author of the book Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War.[3][4] He has been featured in publications like Financial Times, New York Times, Foreign Affairs, El País, and The Wall Street Journal.[5]

Pierpaolo Barbieri
Born (1987-05-17) May 17, 1987
Buenos Aires, Argentina
NationalityArgentina
EducationHarvard University, University of Cambridge
OccupationEconomic historian, researcher
Known forFounder of Ualá, Executive Director at Greenmantle

Career

Pierpaolo Barbieri grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied at Harvard University. His senior honor thesis on the economic ties between Adolf Hitler's Germany and Francisco Franco's Spain was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes ‘14 Prize.[6] The research was conducted with the support of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the Real Colegio Complutense.[7]

Academics

Upon graduation, he was elected Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Harvard-Cambridge scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MPhil in Economic and Social History.[8] Between 2011 and 2013, he was researcher and became Ernest May Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and Strategic Advisor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). He was also special advisor to the Berggruen Council on the Future of Europe.[6]

In 2015, his book, Hitler’s Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, was published in the U.S by Harvard University Press. It has also been published in Spain, Italy, Latin America and China.[9]

Greenmantle and Brevan Howard Argentina Fund.

He is Executive Director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm,[10] and was head strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund.[11]

Ualá

In 2017, Pierpaolo Barbieri founded Ualá, an Argentina-based personal financial management mobile app that allows users to conduct transactions, such as money transfers, payments and purchases, without having a bank account. It was backed by Soros, Point72, Kevin P. Ryan and the founders of General Catalyst.[10]

Analysis and research

Barbieri is also an economic analyst and has published articles in newspapers and magazines such as the Spanish newspaper El País, where he writes regularly, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New Republic, Weekly Standard and the Argentinian newspapers Perfil, Clarín and La Nación.[12]

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gollark: Rednet isn't actually computer-to-computer as such. It pretends to be, but anyone can pretend to be any computer and trivially read any message.
gollark: Yes, so is rednet.
gollark: Rednet is just a bad modem wrapper.
gollark: It all runs over channels anyway.

References
  1. "Spanish Politics Show a Way Forward for Europe". Time Magazine. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. "Fintech start-up Ualá targets Argentina's unbanked with new mobile banking service". Banking Technology. 24 October 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  3. "Pierpaolo Barbieri discusses Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War". Hardvard Book Store. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  4. "Economic historian Pierpaolo Barbieri presents a new book to 'understand the economics behind the politics'". Splinter. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  5. "Pierpaolo Barbieri". Amazon. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  6. "Pierpaolo Barbieri profile at Belf Center for Science and International Affairs". Belf Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  7. "Pierpaolo Barbieri profile at Institute for New Economic Thinking". Institute for New Economic Thinking. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  8. "Pierpaolo Barbieri". Huffington Post. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  9. "Pierpaolo Barbieri profile at Greenmantle". Greenmantle. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  10. "Soros, Cohen Back App to Lure Cash From Argentine Mattresses". Bloomberg L.P. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  11. "List of Speakers at the 2018 Delphi Economic Forum". London Calling. 23 November 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  12. "Pierpaolo Barbieri". El País. Retrieved 26 December 2017. (in Spanish)
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