Andrés Solimano, a Chilean-Italian national, holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is currently Regional Advisor at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He was at the World Bank in Washington DC for 10 years where he held positions of Director, Country Management Department, for Andean Countries (Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela) and Economic Advisor, Macroeconomics and Growth Division, Economics Research Group.   Mr. Solimano was also Executive Director for Chile and Ecuador at the Boards of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), and Representative of Chile at the Donors Committee of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) in Washington, D.C. Mr. Solimano was the Chairman of the Programming Committee of the Board of Executive Directors of the IDB.

Mr. Solimano has edited several books and is also author of numerous articles on International Migration and Remittances, Political Economy, Savings, Investment and Economic Growth, Inequality, the Chilean Economy, Globalization, Economic Stabilization, Reform and Transition, and Labor Markets in professional journals and the press.

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