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Biography
Andrés Velasco is currently serving as the
Minister of Finance for Chile. He was appointed to
that position in March of 2006. He is Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International
Finance and Development. He is on leave from
the Kennedy School of Government. He came to the Kennedy School
in 2000, after a decade on the faculty at New York University,
where he taught economics and directed the Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies. At the Kennedy
School, he also teaches in the MPA/ID
program. He has published widely in the areas of international
economics, economic development, and political economy.
His recent research looks into the causes of financial
crises in emerging markets and tries to identify policies
that can help avoid such crises. He is affiliated with
the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge
and the Center for Applied Economics at the University
of Chile. In 1990-92, he served as Chief of Staff to
Chile's Finance Minister and later as Director of International
Finance at that Ministry. In 1995, he served as Chief
Economist and Deputy Lead Negotiator in Chile's NAFTA
accession team. Since then, he has been an adviser to
the governments of Ecuador and El Salvador and to the
Central Bank of Chile and a consultant to the World
Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American
Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission
for Latin America, and the Federal Research Bank of
Atlanta. Velasco holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia
University and MA and BA degrees from Yale University.
In 1994-95 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political
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