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DEMIAN
REIDEL

Physicist. Economist. Architect of the Argentine Nuclear Plan.

Instituto Balseiro·University of Chicago·Harvard·Goldman Sachs·JP Morgan·QFR Capital·BCRA·G20·FSB·Harvard Kennedy School·Columbia Business School·Casa Rosada·IAEA·Nucleoelectrica Argentina·Instituto Balseiro·University of Chicago·Harvard·Goldman Sachs·JP Morgan·QFR Capital·BCRA·G20·FSB·Harvard Kennedy School·Columbia Business School·Casa Rosada·IAEA·Nucleoelectrica Argentina·
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The Arc

THREE ACTS

A physicist who became an economist who is rebuilding a country.

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I

PHYSICS

1990s

Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche

The Method

Trained at Argentina's premier scientific institution to find laws in noisy data. Published papers on stochastic processes and neural network dynamics. This discipline — extracting signal from noise — became the foundation for everything that followed.

BS & MS in Physics, Instituto Balseiro

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II

ECONOMICS

2000s–2018

Harvard · Wall Street · BCRA

The Judgment

PhD in Economics at Harvard under Kenneth Rogoff. Emerging markets at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. Co-founded QFR Capital Management, a global macro fund managing over $3 billion. Then returned to public service as Second Vice President of Argentina's Central Bank, designing the country's first inflation-targeting regime and leading its G20 Finance Track.

PhD Economics, Harvard · Second Vice President, BCRA

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III

STATE

2024–2026

Casa Rosada · IAEA · Vienna

The Responsibility

Chair of the Presidential Council of Advisors. Architect of the Argentine Nuclear Plan, announced at Casa Rosada with the IAEA Director General. President of Nucleoelectrica Argentina, the state operator of the country's three nuclear power plants. Positioned Argentina at the convergence of nuclear energy and AI infrastructure.

Architect, Argentine Nuclear Plan · Chair, Presidential Council of Advisors

Research

THE SIA FRAMEWORK

Two papers co-authored with President Javier Milei introduce a decision framework for evaluating antitrust remedies in increasing-returns sectors — where scale itself is productive.

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POLICY

Scale Safety in Increasing-Returns Sectors: A Decision Framework for Remedy Design

with Google Search as a Worked Illustration

Demian Reidel & Javier Milei · 2026

Introduces the Scale Impact Assessment (SIA), a front-end screen for evaluating whether antitrust remedies risk destroying the productive scale on which quality, reliability, and innovation depend. Applied to the 2025 Google Search remedies record, the framework classifies lower-fragmentation remedies as easier to reconcile with scale safety than Chrome divestiture.

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THEORY

Minimum Viable Scale, Local Activation, and Threshold Geometry under Increasing Returns and Endogenous Labor Supply

Demian Reidel & Javier Milei · 2026

Develops an exact steady-state existence theory under increasing returns. Provides a scalar diagnostic, closed-form minimum viable scale, fold geometry, wedge amplifier, CES threshold map, activation threshold, and a decentralized no-fold-crossing condition.

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Public Service

SERVING THE
REPUBLIC

Argentine Republic

March 2024 – July 2025

Chair, Presidential Council of Advisors

Established and led the advisory body to the Argentine presidency. Responsible for long-term economic policy, technology strategy, and international relations. Organized President Milei's meetings with Silicon Valley leaders. Policy architect for Google-assisted government reform and Argentina's nuclear and AI strategy.

Casa Rosada · IAEA

December 2024

Architect, Argentine Nuclear Plan

Designed the national nuclear framework announced jointly with President Milei and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi. Positioned Argentina's nuclear infrastructure as the foundation for long-term energy independence and AI compute capacity. Championed the ACR-300 small modular reactor, designed by Argentine engineers at INVAP.

State Nuclear Operator

April 2025 – February 2026

President, Nucleoelectrica Argentina

Oversaw Argentina's three operating nuclear power plants: Atucha I, Atucha II, and Embalse. Led international nuclear diplomacy with EDF, Framatome, the European SMR Alliance, and French AI Minister Clara Chappaz. Addressed the IAEA International Conference on Stakeholder Engagement in Vienna.

BCRA · G20 · FSB

December 2015 – June 2018

Second Vice President, Banco Central

Designed and implemented Argentina's first inflation-targeting regime under a flexible exchange rate. Member of the Monetary Policy Committee. Represented the BCRA at the G20 and the Financial Stability Board. Led the G20 Finance Track during Argentina's 2018 presidency.

Talks & Media

PUBLIC RECORD

Keynote

IAEA International Symposium on AI and Nuclear Energy

Vienna

The convergence of nuclear baseload and AI compute infrastructure.

January 2026

Address

Transition to a Sustainable Future with Nuclear

IAEA Stakeholder Engagement Conference, Vienna

Day 3 keynote at the IAEA International Conference on Stakeholder Engagement.

May 2025

Joint Presentation

Argentine Nuclear Plan Announcement

Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires

Joint presentation with President Milei and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi announcing the national nuclear framework.

December 2024

Interviews & Appearances

Lex Fridman Podcast #453

YouTube · Spotify

President Milei's interview — Rogoff's public endorsement

November 2024

El fin del efectivo

TEDxRiodelaPlata

Physics applied to monetary economics

October 2017

Plan Nuclear Argentino, IA y la agenda tecnologica de Milei

La Ultima Frontera · Santi Siri

Nuclear energy, AI, Cherenkov radiation physics

December 2024

El Plan Nuclear Argentino puede cambiar el pais para siempre

DEF / Infobae

From the Science Salon at Casa Rosada

March 2025

Nuestro pais se gano la loteria geologica

La Nacion

From Paris during nuclear diplomacy tour

May 2025

Argentina Under Pressure Again

Princeton Julis-Rabinowitz Center

Economics and finance policy forum

2024

Generative Art

PATTERN & EMERGENCE

The same questions that animate the academic work — how complex structure emerges from simple rules, where order borders chaos — explored through a different medium.

Flow Field

Flow Field

Emergent complexity from simple rules

Lorenz Attractor

Lorenz Attractor

Deterministic chaos in three dimensions

Wave Interference

Wave Interference

Superposition patterns in two-source systems

Voronoi Tessellation

Voronoi Tessellation

Natural partitioning of continuous space

Mathematical Rose

Mathematical Rose

Polar coordinate symmetry

Gradient Mesh

Gradient Mesh

Continuous color fields through interpolation

Modernist Cuisine

PRECISION & PLEASURE

The kitchen as laboratory. Temperature gradients, Maillard reactions, emulsion physics, fermentation kinetics — the same precision that governs monetary policy or nuclear engineering, applied to food.

A practitioner of the modernist cuisine movement developed by Nathan Myhrvold — former Microsoft CTO and fellow physicist — whom Demi met at the Sun Valley Conference. The intersection of scientific rigor and culinary art.