Spring Meetings

Mr. Jack Chambers is the Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin West. He is the Minister for Finance in the Government of Ireland and Deputy Leader of Fianna Fáil. He previously served in Government as at the Government Chief Whip and was also Minister of State for Sport, the Gaeltacht & Defence from 2020 to 2022 and as Minister of State, attending Cabinet, in the Department of Transport and the Department of the Environment, Climate & Communications from 2022 to 2024. He was elected to Dáil Éireann on his first attempt in the February 2016 General Election and was re-elected in the 2020 General Election. Before entering the Dáil, he served as a Fingal County Councillor and as Deputy Mayor. Born in Galway, Jack moved to Dublin West at a young age and is involved with many local community groups and sports organisations. He is a Medical Doctor having studied Medicine at the RCSI and he holds an honours degree in Law & Political Science from Trinity College.

Mrs. Carola Moreno holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University and a degree in Commercial Engineering from the University of Chile. Previously, she served as Acting Head of the International Relations Unit at the Central Bank and was a substitute member of the Committee for Setting Limits on Interchange Fees. From 2021 to February 2022, she was an Advisor to the Manager of the Financial Policy Division of the Central Bank. Between 2017 and 2020, she worked as Chile’s Representative to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and as an advisor to the Executive Director of the Southern Cone Office (OEDAG) at the IMF Executive Board. She was a Senior Economist and Head of the External Monitoring Group (GME) at the Central Bank from 2012 to 2017. In the 2011-2012 period, she was a Professor and Director of the Center for Economic and Business Studies (CEEN) at the Universidad del Desarrollo. Prior to that, she served as Principal Economist at the Global Trends Unit and the Studies Management Chile Division of BBVA. From 1998 to 2001, she was an Economic Advisor in the Coordination of International Finance and Capital Markets at the Ministry of Finance.

Mr. Stefano Scarpetta has been the Director of the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) Directorate of the OECD since 2013. Stefano represents the OECD in the G20 and G7 and many other high-level international fora on labour market, social, migration and health issues.  Prior to 2013, Mr. Scarpetta held different position in the OECD, leading a number of large-scale, innovative projects. He wrote the first assessment of the original OECD Jobs Strategy (Implementing the OECD Jobs Strategy). He was also in charge of the seminal work conducted by the Economics Department on the “Sources of Economic Growth”, which for the first time also included firm-level analyses, and later led to the regular assessment of Going for Growth. Stefano also developed a new framework to assess “The Policy Challenges of Population Ageing". From 2002 to 2006 he was the labour market advisor and lead economist at the World Bank in charge of the Bank-wide programme of Employment and Development. He holds a PhD in Economics from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), a M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Laurea Summa cum Laude from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

Stefania Fabrizio is Unit Chief of the Gender and Inclusion Unit in the Strategy, Policy and Review Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Previously, she worked in the Fiscal Affairs Department, European Department and African Department. Prior to joining the IMF, she was a visiting professor at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.  Her research covers a range of issues in the area of gender economics, development economics, public finance, and macroeconomics.

Mr. Antonio Spilimbergo studied at the University Bocconi of Milan and received his Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. He worked at the Inter-American Development Bank. Since 1997, he has worked at the I.M.F in the European, Fiscal, Research, Western Hemisphere, and Research Departments. He has been mission chief for Slovenia, Tũrkiye, Italy, Russia, and Brazil. Currently he is deputy director at the Research Department. He is a research fellow of CEPR, William Davidson Institute, and CreAm. His areas of interest are: international trade, development, labor economics, and macroeconomics. His papers are published in leading academic journals, including American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Economic Growth, Carnegie Rochester Conference Series, and Journal of International Economics. He co-edited the books “Getting Back on Track: Growth, Employment, and Rebalancing in Europe” and “Brazil: Boom, Bust, and the Road to Recovery” and co-wrote the book “Si-vax”.