Emilio Basavilbaso
Emilio Basavilbaso is an Argentine economist and politician. He served as Executive Director of the Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social from 2015 to 2019. Since 2024 he has worked at Globant as a vice president in North America, focused on artificial intelligence in finance.
Education
Basavilbaso completed his primary and secondary education at Colegio Cardenal Newman in Buenos Aires, graduating in 1994. He earned a bachelor's degree in Business Economics with a minor in History and Politics from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in 1999. With a scholarship from Fundación Carolina, he completed an MBA focused on technology companies at the Universidad Nebrija in Madrid, where he received an honor medal in 2004. He also obtained a leadership diploma from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires.Professional activity
Private sector
Between 1999 and 2008 he worked at Telefónica in regional roles, alternating residencies in Brazil, Spain, Chile, Colombia and Peru. From 2022 to 2024 he served as Chief Operating Officer of Grupo Clarín. In 2024 he joined Globant as Vice President for North America, focusing on applications of artificial intelligence in financial services.Public service
Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (''Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires'')
He served as Director General de Planificación Estratégica, contributing to the Annual Government Plans for 2009 and 2010. In January 2010 he was appointed Subsecretario de Modernización de la Gestión Pública.Instituto de Vivienda de la Ciudad (''City Housing Institute'')
In 2014 he was appointed President of the Instituto de Vivienda de la Ciudad. During his tenure he promoted the Primera Casa BA program. He also advanced an enhancement plan for urban complexes, including new housing works and relocation of families in environmental emergency areas, and launched the Mi Propiedad program to formalize title deeds.ANSES
On 10 December 2015 Basavilbaso took office as Executive Director of the Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social. In 2016 the Ley 27.260 – Reparación Histórica para Jubilados y Pensionados was enacted, updating benefits for retirees and pensioners with legal claims against the State for lack of benefit indexation. That year, Decree DNU 593/2016 modified the Régimen de Asignaciones Familiares, incorporating monotributistas and expanding compatibility rules with certain social programs.ANSES and the Ministerio de Desarrollo Social implemented the Protección de Niños y Jóvenes project with financing from the World Bank, within a larger lending program approved in 2016.
Under his administration, Créditos Argenta were expanded to beneficiaries of the Pensión Universal para el Adulto Mayor, to non-contributory pension holders, and to parents receiving the Asignación Universal por Hijo and the Asignación Familiar. Between December 2015 and May 2017, overall coverage of family and universal allowances rose by approximately 25%, and by 2018 the system covered about 9.1 million children through Asignaciones Familiares and the AUH.
In 2017, ANSES and partner institutions published Análisis y propuestas de mejoras para ampliar la Asignación Universal por Hijo, a joint research effort by ANSES, the Ministerio de Desarrollo Social, UNICEF, the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, CEDLAS of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and the CNCPS. In 2018 the Libreta de la Asignación Universal could be submitted online through a new virtual process. That year, with UNICEF Argentina and other agencies, ANSES co-organized the international seminar Asignación Universal por Hijo, presente y futuro del derecho en la niñez.
In 2018 he chaired the Permanent Committee of the Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social, based in Mexico, and between 2018 and 2019 he served as president of the Organización Iberoamericana de Seguridad Social, headquartered in Madrid.
Later activities
He has worked as a Senior International Consultant for the World Bank, authoring and co-authoring studies on Argentina’s pension system and social insurance. In 2021 he spoke at the Asociación Cristiana de Dirigentes de Empresa and began teaching at the Universidad Austral as an associate professor.Since 2024 he has served as a vice president at Globant, North America, in roles related to artificial intelligence and finance.