Juan Carlos Echeverry is Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia; has published papers in different fields of economics, in specialized journals, and a book on the Colombian economy. He is the Colombian representative of Latin Source a network of independent advisors providing macroeconomic and political analysis for the international financial community. He has a consultancy firm in Bogotá, ECONCEPT, is weekly editorialist of CNN en Español and was minister of Economic Planning of Colombia between 2000 and 2002. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.

