Alberto Benegas Lynch, Jr. is the author of more than 20 books and is a professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires. He is also president of the Department of Economics of the National Academy of Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences, both in Argentina.
Benegas Lynch is the former doctorate director of the Department of Economics of La Plata National University and for 23 years was Rector of ESEADE (Graduate School in Economics and Business Administration), where he is professor emeritus. He is also a former economic adviser to the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, Argentina’s Chamber of Commerce, the Interamerican Council of Commerce and Production, and Argentina’s Agricultural Society.
Benegas Lynch is a former member of the board of the Mont Pelerin Society, a former member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London) and is an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute. He has received honorary degrees from Argentina’s and foreign universities and is member of the Institute for the Methodology of Social Sciences at the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Buenos Aires.
His Spanish‐language articles can be found at El Cato.