Serafin Martinez Jaramillo is a Senior Financial Sector Consultant at the World Bank. He has over 27 years of experience at Banco de México on financial stability issues, where he most recently served as Manager of Environmental and Social Risk Analysis and Policy, and from 2019 to 2021, was seconded to the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA) to supervise work on regional financial stability and financial market infrastructures issues. He represented Banco de México at several working groups at international institutions and initiatives like the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS),the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), and the International Banking Research Network (IBRN), among others. He is currently co-leading the NGFS Nature Scenarios Workstream representing the World Bank.
His work and research focus on financial stability, environmental degradation-related financial risks, systemic risk, financial networks, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He has developed agent-based models to analyze the links between agent behavior and market dynamics and network models and tools for financial contagion and systemic risk analysis. His work has been published in journals and books such as IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Journal of Financial Stability,Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,Computational Management Science, International Journal of Central Banking, Neurocomputing, Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining, Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, and the Latin American Journal of Central Banking among others. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Finance and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Essex.