Vittorio Corbo

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Vittorio Corbo Lioi was Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Chile from May 2003 until the present (May 2006).

Lioi has a PhD in economics from MIT which he gained in 1971. He studied economics at the Universidad of Chile in 1967.

[edit] Appointments

• Professor Pontificia Universidad Catolica 1981 - 1984 & 1991 - present
• World Bank 1984 -1991
• Professor Universidad de Chile 1979 - 1981
• Concordia University 1972 - 1979

[edit] Memberships

He is also member of the

• Management Council of the Fundación Chilena del Pacífico (Chilean Pacific Foundation),
• International Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw, Poland, and
• from 1999, a member of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Center for International Development.

Mr. Corbo was

• Head of the Macroeconomic Development and Growth Division of the World Bank (1984-1991),
• Professor at Concordia University in Canada (1972-1981), *Professorial Lecturer at Georgetown University in the United States (1986-1991) and
• Vice-President of the International Economic Association (1998-2002).

In recent years he has been advisor to the World Bank, the IDB and the IMF.

He was Economic Advisor to the Santander-Chile Group (1991-2003), Director of the Santander-Chile Bank (1995-2003), Director of Universidad-Chile (2000-2003), member of the Management Council of the Global Development Network (1993-2003) and he has been consultant to important national and international firms (1979-1984 and 1991-2003).

Mr. Corbo was also Senior Research Fellow at the Research Center for Economic Development and Policy Reform of the Stanford University, California (Summer 1999) and of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund (Summers 2000 and 2003).

He has worked in more than ten countries, lectured at seminars in more than twenty countries and at the most important universities world-wide.

He is author of nine books and over a hundred articles published in books and international periodicals specialising in economic affairs.

He is a recognized authority on macroeconomics, international trade and economic development and economic tightness processes.

He is also member of the editorial committee of the Journal of Development Economics and of the Journal of Applied Economics.