Lyndon B.

Johnson School of Public Affairs

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin Texas 78712
August 13, 2015
Her Excellency Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
President
Argentine Republic
Dear Madam President:
We write to offer a word of congratulations on your appointment yesterday of Maria Delfina Rossi to
be a Director of the Banco de la Nacion Argentina.
Ms. Rossi became known to one of us James Galbraith as a member of the staff of the European
Parliament in 2013. Impressed by her competence and good judgment, Galbraith encouraged her to
seek a graduate degree at the LBJ School of Public Affairs of The University of Texas at Austin. During
her first semester, in the fall of 2014, she was a student of Yanis Varoufakis, then a Visiting Professor at
the University, and she made an equally positive impression on him.
Both of us have seen Maria Delfina Rossi in action as a student, as a collaborator in the research
activities of the University of Texas Inequality Project, and as a leader in numerous academic and
policy discussions at the University of Texas. We know her to be intelligent, talented, hardworking and
professional, and we are proud that you have seen fit to entrust her with a role of public trust and
responsibility.
With every high regard,
(s/)
James K. Galbraith
Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations
(s/)
Yanis Varoufakis
Member of Parliament