Mauricio Villafuerte is a Deputy Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. He specializes in fiscal and monetary policy issues in natural resource-rich countries and has produced several publications on fiscal policy management and fiscal institutions (specifically fiscal rules and natural resource funds) in those countries. Before joining the Fund, he worked at the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Ecuador.
Ed Dolan
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Edwin G. Dolan is an economist and educator with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Early in his career, he was a member of the economics faculty at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and George Mason University. From 1990 to 2001, he taught in Moscow, Russia, where he and his wife founded the American Institute of Business and Economics (AIBEc), an independent, not-for-profit MBA program. Since 2001, he has taught at several universities in Europe, including Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where he has an ongoing annual visiting appointment. During breaks in his teaching career, he worked in Washington, D.C. as an economist for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and as a regulatory analyst for the Interstate Commerce Commission, and later served a stint in Almaty as an adviser to the National Bank of Kazakhstan. When not lecturing abroad, he makes his home in San Juan Islands, Washington.
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