Irene Brambilla

Maria Irene Brambilla is an Argentine economist who works as a professor of economics at the National University of La Plata and as a researcher for the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). Her research interests include international trade and microeconomics, and the effects of economic shifts on workers.

Education and career Brambilla received a licenciate (the equivalent of a bachelor's degree) in economics from the National University of La Plata in 1997. She continued her studies at Princeton University, jointly advised there by Gene Grossman, Elie Tamer, and Bo Honoré; she completed her Ph.D. in 2004.

She joined Yale University as an assistant professor in 2003, also working as a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research beginning in 2005. She returned to the National University of La Plata as a professor in 2008, and became an independent investigator for CONICET in 2012.

Recognition Brambilla was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2022.