Márcio Garcia is full professor at the Department of Economics of PUC-Rio, ince 1991, having already served as Chairman and Director of both Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. His areas of research are International Finance and Monetary Economics. He has been visiting professor/scholar at the economics departments of Stanford, Chicago, MIT and MIT/Sloan, in the US, and at Paris School of Economics (then, DELTA) and Université D’Evry-Val-D’Essone, in France. He is a research associate of CNPq and FAPERJ and a member of the Bellagio Group. He has consulted for international and Brazilian institutions, as The World Bank, IMF, IADB, ECLAC/UN, B3, BNDES, Icatu, ANBIMA, NEO Investimentos and Fininvest, among others. And since 2019, has been a member of the board of directors of Banrisul.