Rodrigo Valdés is a Senior Advisor in the Western Hemisphere Department of the IMF. He currently is mission chief for the United States and supervises the work of a number of country teams. Prior to joining the IMF, he was Chief Latin America Economist at Barclays Capital Inc., Director of Research and Chief Economist of the Central Bank of Chile, and Advisor in the Ministry of Finance of Chile.
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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