Sergio Muro is an Extended Term Consultant with the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice of the World Bank, which he joined in 2018. An Argentine national, Sergio is a lawyer from Universidad Nacional de Rosario, he holds an MA in Law and Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, as well as an LLM and Juris Science Doctorate from Cornell University.
Prior to this position, he had been a full-time law professor in Argentina where he specialized on insolvency, law and economics, and judicial decision-making. For several years, he co-directed the Argentine Supreme Court Project, an interdisciplinary research project at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. His research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals such as the International Review of Law and Economics, the Journal of Law and Courts and the European Business Organization Law Review.
In addition, he has worked as a consultant for World Bank for several years, he has served as a Legal Expert in an International Commercial Arbitration case, as member of Insol Academics, as a Global Research Fellow for the Korean Legislation Research Institute and has been a member of the pre-approved roster of experts of UNDP in democratic governance.