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Augusto
Lopez-Claros
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Augusto
Lopez-Claros has
a degree in Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge University,
England, and a PhD in Economics from Duke University, United
States. He is a former professor at the University of Chile at
Santiago, a resident representative at the International Monetary
Fund in Russia, a senior international economist at Lehman Brothers
in London, and Chief Economist and Director of the the
Global
Competitveness
Report
2006/2007 at the World Economic Forum. In late 2006, he
founded EFD-Global
Consulting Network, a consultancy
advising governments and private corporations on economic,
financial, and development issues.
He is the
author of
numerous articles and papers on international economic issues,
including: The Search
for
Efficiency in the Adjustment Process: Spain in the 1980s;
The
European Monetary
System:
Developments and Perspectives (co-author); Fiscal Policy Issues During the
Transition in
Russia, Ten
Years of
Russian Economic Reform; Reforming the IMF; Interdependence,
Cooperation, and the Emergence of Global Institutions; Chile: the
Next State of Development; The Role of International Financial
Organizations During the Transition in Russia; Israel: Factors in the
Emergence of an ICT Powerhouse (co-author), and many
others. His interests include the role of interdependence and
cooperation in the emergence of global institutions, elements of a
successful approach to economic development, and aspects of
management of the globalization process.
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