Felipe Larraín
Professor of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)
Felipe Larraín is Professor of Economics at Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago and member of the Executive Board of the Center of Economic and Social Policies (CLAPES UC). He was Chile’s minister of finance from 2010 to 2014, and from 2018 to 2019. He is also a member of the UN Leadership Council for Sustainable Development. He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University. From 1997 to 1999, he was the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard. He has consulted on macroeconomic issues with the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Inter-American Development Bank. Since 1985, he has served as economic advisor to the governments of several Latin American countries.
Professor Larrain is the author and/or editor of 15 books, including Macroeconomics in the Global Economy (co-authored with Jeffrey Sachs), and has published over 140 papers in books and scholarly journals in Latin America, the US, and Europe. Before becoming Chile’s finance minister he was the board member of several companies and non-profit institutions in Chile and abroad. He was named finance minister of the year for Latin America and the Americas by several institutions in 2010, 2011, and 2018.