Mario Castro has been a LatAm Macro Strategist at BBVA since August 2019. Before joining BBVA, he was a LatAm FX and local rates strategist at Nomura Securities from 2012 to 2019, where he covered Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. He also worked for Anif (a leading think-tank in Colombia) as a macro analyst and the Colombian government at the start of his career. Mario holds an MBA from the UNC Kenan-Flager Business School and an MA and BA in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia).