Franco Uccelli

Franco Uccelli is an Executive Director and Head of Client Investment Strategy for Latin America at the J.P. Morgan Private Bank (PB), where he is responsible for formulating and communicating to clients a cohesive and comprehensive vision of the PB’s investment strategies and global macroeconomic and market views.

Franco was previously a member of the Emerging Markets Research team at J.P. Morgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), with primary coverage responsibility for Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, Central America, and the Caribbean, and the Bear Stearns Emerging Markets Sovereign Research group. He started his professional career in the financial services industry in Miami, where he worked for international banks and held various positions in international credit, where his duties included providing country risk analysis for the Latin American and Caribbean region, as well as recommending and monitoring country exposure levels.

Franco holds a B.A. in Economics and Latin American Studies from Brandeis University, as well as an M.A. in Latin American Economics from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. in Comparative Politics from The University of Texas at Austin. He has also completed coursework for a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Miami.

Franco has been ranked by Institutional Investor (II) as one of the top sell-side analysts for Chile and has won FocusEconomics Best Economic Forecaster Awards for Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.