Alberto Benegas Lynch holds a PhD in Economics and a PhD in Management Sciences. He is President of the Economic Sciences Section of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences, both in Argentina and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Economics of Uruguay. He is the author of 22 books, in addition to 2 in co-authorship and 10 in collaboration. He was a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and taught in five courses: Economics, Law, Engineering, Sociology and at the History Department of Philosophy and Letters. He was a professor for the PhD in Economics at Universidad Católica Argentina.
He was Director of the Doctoral Department of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of La Plata and, for 23 years, Rector of ESEADE where he is Professor Emeritus. He was an economic adviser to the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, the Argentine Chamber of Commerce, the Argentine Rural Society and the Inter-American Trade and Production Council. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Economic Affairs (London) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mont Pelerin Society. He is an Associate Scholar of the Cato Institute (Washington DC) and the Ludwig von Mises Institute (Auburn). Dr. Benegas is a member of the Board of the Institute of Methodology of Social Sciences at the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Buenos Aires. He received honorary degrees from universities in Argentina and abroad and is president of the Academic Council of the Libertad y Progreso Foundation in Argentina and of the Editorial Board of the Argentine branch of Union Editorial of Madrid.
He is also a member of the Academic Councils of the Corrientes Freedom Club, the Federalism and Liberty Foundation in Tucumán, the Foundation for Progress in Santiago de Chile, the Consultative Council of the Center on Global Prosperity of the Independent Institute in Washington DC , the Advisory Board of Advances in Austrian Economics in New York, the Scientific Council of the European Journal of Political Economy in Madrid, a member of the National Association of Scholars in Princeton, the Institut Turgot in Brussels and a member of the International Council of the Center for Studies and Development in Montevideo.
