Overview
- The Presidency released an official photo of the meeting at the Olivos residence on December 8.
- Milei departs on the presidential plane for Oslo to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honoring Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, with his return scheduled for December 12.
- His travel means he will be in Europe as Congress opens extraordinary sessions to take up labor reform and the 2026 budget.
- Merton, a 1997 Nobel economics laureate and co-developer of the Black–Scholes model, is a leading figure in modern financial theory.
- The encounter follows Merton’s April invitation for Vice Minister José Luis Daza to lecture at MIT, highlighting the government’s bid to anchor its program in internationally recognized expertise.