Académicos e Investigadores

Especialista en Economía Internacional y Macroeconomía, actualmente es Director y Profesor Titular (desde 1992) del Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile. Asimismo, es Consultor del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Entre 2001 y comienzos de 2006 se desempeñó como Economista Jefe para América Central, República Dominicana, Haití y México en el Departamento Operativo del BID que sirve a estos países. Es Ph.D. en Economía de Columbia University y su primer grado es de la Universidad de Chile. Ha sido asesor de varios países latinoamericanos y consultor de Naciones Unidas y organismos financieros internacionales. Ha publicado varios libros y artículos en revistas internacionales especializadas.

He is currently Dean of the School of Economics and Business, University of Chile. He has been Chairman of its Department of Economics. A specialist in International Economics and Macroeconomics, he has been a Professor of the Department since 1992. He also works on a regular basis for the Inter-American Development Bank as Consultant. Between 2001 and early 2006 he was Regional Economic Advisor for Central America, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Haiti at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a first degree from the University of Chile. He has been economic advisor to several Latin American governments and a consultant to the United Nations and international financial institutions. He has published several books in Spanish and English and is the author of numerous articles published in international journals.