Galina Alexeenko is a senior economic analyst for the Latin America Research Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In addition to monitoring and reporting on economic, financial, and political developments in Latin America, she provides general assessment of the macroeconomic conditions in other major U.S. trading partners. Galina is originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, and holds a bachelor's degree in economics and business from Agnes Scott College.
Michael Chriszt is the director of International and Regional Analysis. In addition to directing the work of the LARG, he monitors and reports on economic, financial, and political developments in foreign economies and the states of the Sixth District. He holds degrees in diplomacy and foreign affairs and history, and a master's degree in political economy from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He joined the bank in 1989.
Laurel Graefe is an economic analyst for the Latin America Research Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In addition to monitoring and reporting on economic, financial, and political developments in Latin America, she provides general assessment of the macroeconomic conditions of other major U.S. trading partners. Raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Laurel earned her bachelor's degree from Agnes Scott College, where she studied economics and Spanish.
Stephen Kay is the coordinator of Latin American analysis at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and coordinator of the Bank's Americas Center. His research focuses on political economy and public policy in Latin America. His articles on pension reform in Latin America have appeared in Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, the Journal of Aging and Social Policy, the Journal of European Social Policy, the Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, International Social Security Review, and the Atlanta Fed's Economic Review. He is the editor of Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas (with Tapen Sinha, Oxford University Press). He has testified twice before committees of the United States Congress on pension reform in Latin America. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the bank he taught at UCLA and California State University, Fullerton.
Federico Mandelman is a research economist and assistant policy adviser on the regional team in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. His major fields of study are international macroeconomics, emerging economies, banking, and monetary economics. Prior to joining the bank in 2006, Dr. Mandelman was a research assistant, teaching assistant, and instructor at Boston College. While working on his undergraduate degree in Argentina, he worked at banking institutions like BNP-Paribas and Banco de la Nación Argentina. Dr. Mandelman received his doctorate in economics and a master of arts in economics from Boston College. He earned a degree in economics from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli is a research economist and assistant policy adviser with a doctorate in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work includes studies that emphasize the effects of currency substitution on the development of the financial system and the credibility of stabilization policies in Latin America. Prior to joining the bank in 2000, she was an assistant professor in economics and Latin American studies at Tulane University. She has also worked as an economist at the Financial Corporation for Development of Peru. A native of Lima, Peru, she received her bachelor's degree from the Universidad Católica del Perú.
