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Dr. Vittorio Corbo Biography He is also a full time Professor of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (from 1981 to date) and a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform of Stanford University. Dr. Corbo is a distinguished Board member of the Chilean Pacific Foundation and member of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Social and Economic Research (Warsaw, Poland). Economic Adviser to the Santander Group in Chile (1991-2003) and Member of the Board of Directors of Banco Santander-Chile (1995-2003), Universia-Chile (200-2003). He has been a frequent consultant to the World Bank, the IDB and the IMF with work experience in more than fifteen countries all over the world (1979-1984 and 1991-2003), and member of the Board of the Global Development Network (1999-2003) He was Chief of the Macroeconomic Adjustment and Growth Division of the World Bank (1984-1991), Professor of Economics Concordia University in Canada (1972-1981), Professorial Lecturer in Economics at Georgetown University in the USA (1984-1991) and member of the Executive Board of the African Economic Research Consortium with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya (1992-1996), Vice President of the International Economic Association (1998-2002), and member of the Council of the Econometric Society (1998-2001). He was recently a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform of Stanford University (January/February 1999) and a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Research Department of the IMF (January/February 2000). Author and editor of nine books and has published more that one hundred papers in books and international journals in economics. He is a well-known specialist in the areas of macroeconomics, international trade, adjustment and growth and development. Dr. Corbo is also a member of the editorial board of several professional journals: Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Applied Economics. Panels
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