Andres Velasco

Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development
On Leave,
Center for International Development
Office Address
Littauer-106
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 4
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-3255
Fax: 617-496-0178
Email: andres_velasco@harvard.edu
Assistant
Catherine Fratianni Guevara (617-496-0509)
Andres Velasco

Profile

Andrs Velasco is Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development. 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. From 1990 to 1992 he served as Chief of Staff to Chiles Finance Minister and, later, as Director of International Finance at that ministry. Since then, he has been an advisor to the governments of Ecuador and El Salvador and to the Central Bank of Chile, as well as 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. From 1994 to 1995 he was a postdoctoral fellow in political economy at Harvard and MIT. He is currently on leave serving as Minister of Finance to the Government of Chile.

 

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