Rodrigo Vergara

RODRIGO VERGARA has been Governor of the Central Bank of Chile since December 2011, and was appointed member of the Board of the Central Bank of Chile in December 2009 for a term of ten years.

Mr. Vergara graduated in economics from Universidad Católica de Chile in 1985, where he was awarded the prize for the best student in his class. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University (1991).

Between 1985 and 1995 he worked at the Central Bank of Chile, rising to the position of Chief Economist in 1992. In 1995 he joined the Center for Public Studies—an independent Chilean think tank—where he was coordinator of the Macroeconomics Department. From 2003 until his appointment to the Bank’s Board, Mr. Vergara was full professor at the Economics Department of Universidad Católica. He was also an economic consultant and member of the board of several companies.

Mr. Vergara has been economic advisor to the central banks and governments of several countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, and has been an external consultant for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations.

He has been member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Work and Equity, of the Advisory Council on the Chile-United States Free Trade Agreement, of the National Savings Commission, of the Conicyt Economics Group. He is member of the editorial board of journals Estudios Públicos and Economía Chilena.

Mr. Vergara has authored numerous articles published in specialized professional journals and has edited five books.