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I am Diego Vallarino, an Uruguayan researcher and data scientist currently based in Washington, D.C. (USA), where I serve as Counselor to the Board of Directors at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Invest. My career has always moved between academic research and applied leadership roles in finance, technology, and policy.

Before moving to Washington, I lived in Alpharetta, Georgia (USA), and prior to that spent nearly four years between Madrid (Spain) and Paris (France), working as Global Principal Data Scientist at Coface, where I led innovation in alternative data acquisition global strategy and data-driven risk assessment. Earlier, I was Chief Data Scientist at Scotiabank Uruguay and Director of Data & Analytics at Equifax Uruguay. Before that, I worked for ten years as a senior consultant for institutions such as the World Bank, UNDP, and the IDB across Latin America.

Currently, my research lies at the intersection of development economics and financial econometrics,  and applied AI, particularly in the areas of survival models, causal graph neural networks, and the economics of data. I have published on financial inclusion, systemic risk, fraud detection, and institutional change at Artificial Intelligence and Law, Applied Economics Letters, and Global Business and Economics Review, among others. I am also the author of Machine Learning Survival Models for Economic Analysis (Eliva Press, 2023).

Along the way, I have been recognized as one of the “Global Top 100 Data Visionaries” (Truata, 2020), as “CDO Ambassador for Uruguay” (CDO Magazine, 2020), and received the Global “One Equifax” Award (2018). In 2023, I was granted the EB1A “Einstein” U.S. Green Card for extraordinary ability, following my recognition under the PEC 2021–2024 program in Spain (Aliens with extraordinary abilities residency).