Commercial Engineer from the University of Chile and M. Phil. in Economics from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Cambridge, United Kingdom.
In 2015, he became a Director of the Central Bank of Chile. In 2016 he was appointed President of that body, a position he held until the end of January 2022.
Previously, he was Director of the World Bank's Good Governance Practice Area; Deputy Director of Governance and Territorial Development at the OECD, and Manager of Institutional Capacity and Finance at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
For 13 years he worked for the Government of Chile in the Ministry of Finance.
He has also worked as a researcher at the Corporación de Estudios para Latinoamérica (Cieplan).
(He has also developed teaching and research activities in universities in Chile and the United Kingdom.
He has also served as a consultant to international organizations and governments in different countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Vietnam.
countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Vietnam.
He is the author of numerous publications on a wide range of topics, including macroeconomics, public finance, monetary policy, governance and public management, social policies and social security.
macroeconomics, public finance, monetary policy, governance and public management, social policies and social security.
President of the year for central banks 2021, according to the English specialized publication Central Banking.
