Pierpaolo Barbieri (born 17 May 1987) is an Argentine economic historian, researcher, executive director at Greenmantle,[1] founder of Ualá[2] an Argentina-based personal financial management mobile app, and 17Sigma[3] an early stage Latin American focused Venture Capital firm.
He studied at Harvard University,[4] publishing for his honors thesis the book Hitler's Shadow Empire: The Nazis and the Spanish Civil War, on the economic ties between Adolf Hitler's Germany and Francisco Franco's Spain, which was awarded the Thomas T. Hoopes '14 Prize.
[4] Between 2011 and 2013, he was researcher and became Ernest May Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and Strategic Advisor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).
[9] He is executive director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm,[10] and was head strategist of the Brevan Howard Argentina Fund.
[11] In 2017, Barbieri founded Ualá, an Argentina-based personal financial management mobile app that allows users to conduct transactions, such as money transfers, payments and purchases, without having a bank account.