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Jorge Desormeaux J., Member of the Board of the Central Bank of Chile, since December 1999.
He holds degrees in commerce and economic sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (1973) and was a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1976).
Since 1972 he has participated in a wide range of academic activities, first as teaching assistant (1972-1973), later as assistant professor (1973-1974), and then associate professor at the Pontifical Catholic University’s Economics Institute and professor of the macroeconomics course for the MBA degree in macroeconomics at the School of Administration. In 1985, he also served on the council of the Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences at this university.
Mr. Desormeaux worked as a research assistant at MIT’s International Studies Center (1975); associate researcher with the Harvard fiscal reform mission to Bolivia (1976-1977); associate researcher in the World Bank’s Central America section, and member of the World Bank’s economic mission to Nicaragua (1977).
He was instructor for the Economic Principles course at MIT’s Economics Department (undergraduate) (1977-1978), Managerial Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Business (undergraduate) and Dependent Economy Models at the University of Harvard’s Economics Department (undergraduate) (1978).
He has also worked as economic advisor to 25 national and international companies in the fields of agriculture, mining, forestry, manufacturing, finance, transportation and construction; as advisor to the National Statistics Bureau (Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, INE) during the preparation of the new Consumer Price Index (CPI); as advisor to different associative federations and consultant to the World Bank. | 