Luis Felipe Céspedes is Professor of Economics at the Business School of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile) since 2011.
He served as Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile between 2014 and 2017. During this tenure he was also President of the Board of the Economic Development Agency of Chile (CORFO) and President of the Foreign Investment Promotion Committee.
Mr. Céspedes was Chief of Economic Research at the Central Bank of Chile between 2009 and 2011. Earlier, in 2006-2009, Mr. Céspedes was Chief Economic Advisor and Director of Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance of Chile. Previously, he was an economist at the Research Department of the Central Bank of Chile and of the International Monetary Fund.
He has also been member of the board of the Technical Committee of Investment for Pension Funds at the Superintendence of Pensions of Chile and member of the Potential Output Committee at the Ministry of Finance of Chile. He has been consultant for the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Mr. Céspedes has been Visiting Scholar in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank and in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University and Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He has taught Macroeconomics and International Economics courses at Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica de Chile.
He has written extensively on international economics, macroeconomic policy and financial crises. He has published in internationally renowned academic journals and has also contributed chapters to various books on macroeconomics and international finance. He has been the editor of two books and of the academic journal Economía Chilena.
Mr. Céspedes holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University (NYU) and a B.A. in Economics and Business Administration from Universidad Católica de Chile.
