José De Gregorio

José De Gregorio is Full Professor and Dean of the School of Economics and Business of Universidad de Chile. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Previously, Professor De Gregorio served as Minister of Economy, Mining, and Energy in 2000 and 2001. He was a member of the Central Bank of Chile Board from 2001 and was Vice-President of the Central Bank of Chile starting in 2003. Professor De Gregorio served as President of the Central Bank of Chile from 2007 to 2011, during the global financial crisis.

Professor De Gregorio has published four books, including IMF Reform: The Unfinished Agenda and How Latin America Weathered the Global Financial Crisis. He is also the author of more than one hundred articles in international academic journals and books on issues including monetary policy, exchange rates, international finance and economic growth. He is ranked as the top academic in Latin America in publications and cites and in the top 2% worldwide in the bibliographic database, IDEAS.

Throughout his career, Professor De Gregorio has received several prestigious awards, including “Central Banker of the Year in Latin America for 2008” from The Banker, “Distinguished Industrial Engineer of 2007” from the Industrial Engineering-Universidad de Chile Alumni Association, and “Economist of the Year” by El Mercurio in 2011, among others.

Professor De Gregorio has a degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Chile, where he received the “Marcos Orrego Puelma” award for the best graduate of his generation. He obtained a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990.