Fernando Alvarez

Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago

Prior to teaching at Chicago, Fernando Alvarez was an Assistant Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and from 1997 to 1999 he was also a Visiting Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. Professor Alvarez served in the Research Department at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. From 2000 to 2002 he was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. As part of his professional activities, he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and has been editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

Nancy Birdsall

Founding President of the Center for Global Development

Prior to launching the Center for Global Development, Dr. Birdsall served for three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American Development Bank. Before joining the Inter-American Development Bank, Dr. Birdsall spent 14 years in research, policy, and management positions at the World Bank, most recently as Director of the Policy Research Department.

Daniel Cohen

Professor of Economics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and at University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Prof. Cohen is Director, Centre d'Etudes Prospectives d'Economie Appliquées à la Planification (CEPREMAP, Paris) and member of the “Conseil d'Analyse Economique du Premier Ministre”. He is also associate editor of “Le Monde” and affiliated with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London).

José De Gregorio

Vice-Governor and Member of the Board, Central Bank of Chile

Prof. De Gregorio is also full professor (on-leave) at Universidad de Chile. Before joining the Central Bank of Chile, he was Minister at the combined portfolios of Economy, Mining and Energy. Previously, he served as Director of Economic Policy at the Finance Ministry of Chile and as an economist at the Research Department of the IMF. He was co-chairman of the organizing committee of the annual LACEA annual meeting in 1999 and has been member of the Executive Committee of LACEA and of the Editorial Board of Economía.

Jonathan Eaton

Professor of Economics at New York University

Jonathan Eaton has worked on the interaction of technology and trade, innovation and international technology diffusion, strategic trade policy, international sanctions, and developing countries’ participation in international capital markets.  He is the editor of the Journal of International Economics, associate editor of the European Economic Review, and Fellow of the Econometric Society.  Prof. Eaton has previously taught at Princeton, Yale, the University of Virginia, and Boston University.

Maurice Obstfeld

Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and honorary advisor to the Institute of Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan

Prior to teaching at UC Berkeley, he was a professor at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and visiting professor at Harvard. Professor Obstfeld is also a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has often visited prestigious academic institutions both in the United States and abroad, and has worked with various central banks and international organizations as well.

Dani Rodrik

Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Prof. Rodrik is also affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Center for Global Development, Institute for International Economics, and Council on Foreign Relations.

Jose A. Scheinkman

Theodore A Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University and former Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Chicago (1995-1998)

Prof. Scheinkman is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He received a doctorat honoris causa from Université Paris-Dauphine and was awarded a Chaire Blaise Pascal in 2001.  He has been visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS/Paris), University of Paris IX-Dauphine, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) and Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada IMPA (Brazil).