Joseph LaVorgna is a Managing Director and Chief Economist for the Americas at Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking.  He leads the firm’s economic research efforts in the region, managing a team that analyzes trends in the equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, and commodity markets.

Joe served as Special Assistant to the President and Chief Economist of the National Economic Council (NEC). In this role, he was responsible for advising President Trump and NEC Director Larry Kudlow on developments in the financial markets and the broader economy. Joe provided daily economic analysis for senior White House staff and appeared regularly in the media as a spokesman for Administrative economic policy.

Joe has over 25 years of financial services experience. He joined Natixis after 20 years at Deutsche Bank where he was the firm’s Chief US Economist. During that time, he was one of the leading forecasters on Wall Street. He was perennially ranked in the prestigious Institutional Investors’ All-Star Fixed Income Survey finishing #1 on several occasions.

Joe appears regularly in the financial press. He was a CNBC contributor for over a decade and was a contributing opinion writer for The Hill prior to his White House service.

He began his professional career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an economist in the Monetary Analysis & Projections Division. He was Senior US Economist at Lehman Brothers prior to joining Deutsche Bank.

A native New Yorker, Joe holds an economics degree from Vassar College and did graduate work at New York University.

Mr. Berber is a senior member of the CIB Americas team of economists, focused on providing analysis and forecasts for countries in Latin America.

He has 18 years of financial services experience and joined Natixis from Nomura Securities, where he was Senior Economist, Latin America.  Earlier in his career, he worked as an economist at RBS, HSBC Securities, Moody’s Investor Service and IDEAglobal.

Mr. Berber holds a B.S. in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and a M.A. in Economics from Duke University.

Ms. Radzyminski has been with Natixis since July 2013. Prior to joining Natixis she was Head of Loan Syndication and Sales Latin America at Standard Bank. During her nine years there, she was a regional head for underwriting and distribution of loans.

Prior to joining Standard, Ms. Radzyminksi was a Director and Head of Loan Syndication Latin America for Fleet Bank. In this role, she focused on structuring and syndicating bank loans, for emerging market borrowers. Ms. Radzyminski joined Bank Boston in 1991 and spent her first eight years working with the bank’s branch in Argentina, where she was initially responsible for originating debt transactions and later emerging markets sales and distribution. In 1999 she was invited to join the Emerging Markets Loan Syndication group in Boston.  Prior to joining Bank Boston, Ms. Radzyminski spent a year in Citibank Argentina, where she focused on International Trade Finance.

Ms. Radzyminski received an MBA from Instituto de Altos Estudios Empresariales and a BA in Business Administration from Universidad of Buenos Aires.