Sebastian Edwards
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Sebastian Edwards is an international economist, professor, speaker, and consultant. He is currently the Henry Ford II Professor of International Business Economics at the Anderson School of Management
at the University of California
, Los Angeles
(UCLA). From 1993 until April 1996, he was the Chief Economist for the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank
. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
(NBER), a member of the advisory board of Transnational Research Corporation and co-chairman of the Inter American Seminar on Economics (IASE). He is the Past President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), an international professional association of economists with academic interests in Latin America
and the Caribbean
region. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel
-Germany
. He is a member of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
’s Council of Economic Advisors.
From 1981 through 1993, he was an assistant, associate, and full Professor of economics at UCLA. From 2000 to 2004, he was Professor Extraordinario at the IAE, Universidad Austral
, Argentina.
Sebastian Edwards was born in Santiago, Chile. He was educated at the Catholic University of Chile, and received an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago
. He is married to economist Alejandra Cox Edwards. They have three grown children and a grandchild.
, the Journal of Monetary Economics
, The Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, the Journal of Development Economics
, the Quarterly Journal of Economics
, the Journal of Economic Perspectives
and other professional journals.
His latest books are Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism (2010), The Decline of Latin American Economies (2007), Capital Flows and Capital Controls in Emerging Markets (2007), The Economics and Political Transition to an Open Market Economy: Colombia, (OECD, 2001), Capital Flows and the Emerging Economies, (U. of Chicago Press, 2000), Anatomy of an Emerging-Market Crash: Mexico 1994 (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997) and Labor Markets in Latin America: Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility, (Brookings, 1997). Other books include Crisis and Reform in Latin America: From Despair to Hope (Oxford University Press, 1995), Monetarism and Liberalization, The Chilean Experiment (co-author); Exchange Rate Misalignment in Developing Countries; Real Exchange Rates, Devaluation and Adjustment: Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries; and the Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America (coeditor with Rudi Dornbusch).
Edwards is an associate editor of the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, and Analisis Economico. For almost ten years he was the co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics.
, the Los Angeles Times
, the Wall Street Journal and The Economist
. His op-ed pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, Newsweek
, Time
, El País (Madrid
), La Vanguardia
(Barcelona
), La Nación
(Argentina
), Clarín
(Argentina), and La Tercera
(Chile). He is also a columnist for Project Syndicate
. He is a frequent guest on CNN en Español and other TV and cable news programs.
In May 2011 his second novel Un dia perfecto was published by La otra orilla and Editorial Norma. In Un día perfecto two parallel stories develop during one day -- June 10, 1962. On that date Chile's soccer national team unexpectedly defeated the Soviet Union during the World Cup. The first story is a love triangle, while the second one deals with the mysterious disappearance of Lev Yashin, the Soviet famous goalkeeper, known as the "Black Spider". Soon after publication, Un día perfecto joined the list of bestselling novels in Chile. It will be published in the rest of the Spanish speaking world during the second half of 2011.
, the World Bank
, the International Monetary Fund
, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Professor Edwards has been an expert witness in a number of securities cases that have been litigated in Federal and State courts, and in a number of arbitration cases.
Anderson School of Management
Anderson School of Management may refer to:*UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles*Anderson School of Management *A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Riverside...
at the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
(UCLA). From 1993 until April 1996, he was the Chief Economist for the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
National Bureau of Economic Research
The National Bureau of Economic Research is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." The NBER is well known for providing start and end...
(NBER), a member of the advisory board of Transnational Research Corporation and co-chairman of the Inter American Seminar on Economics (IASE). He is the Past President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), an international professional association of economists with academic interests in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
and the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
region. He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel
Kiel
Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...
-Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. He is a member of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....
’s Council of Economic Advisors.
From 1981 through 1993, he was an assistant, associate, and full Professor of economics at UCLA. From 2000 to 2004, he was Professor Extraordinario at the IAE, Universidad Austral
Universidad Austral
Universidad Austral may refer to:*Universidad Austral *Universidad Austral de Chile...
, Argentina.
Sebastian Edwards was born in Santiago, Chile. He was educated at the Catholic University of Chile, and received an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
. He is married to economist Alejandra Cox Edwards. They have three grown children and a grandchild.
Author and editor
Edwards is the author of more than 200 scientific articles on international economics, macroeconomics, exchange rates, country risk, international investment, and economic development. His articles have appeared in the American Economic ReviewAmerican Economic Review
The American Economic Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics publishing seven issues annually by the American Economic Association. First published in 1911, it is considered one of the most prestigious journals in the field. The current editor-in-chief is Penny Goldberg . The...
, the Journal of Monetary Economics
Journal of Monetary Economics
The Journal of Monetary Economics is a leading journal on macroeconomics and monetary economics currently published by Elsevier. Its first issue was in October of 1973. Beginning in 2002, the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy: a bi-annual conference proceedings began to be...
, The Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, the Journal of Development Economics
Journal of Development Economics
The Journal of Development Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier. It was established in 1974 and is considered the top field journal in development economics....
, the Quarterly Journal of Economics
Quarterly Journal of Economics
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, or QJE, is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Oxford University Press and edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics. Its current editors are Robert J. Barro, Elhanan Helpman and Lawrence F. Katz...
, the Journal of Economic Perspectives
Journal of Economic Perspectives
The Journal of Economic Perspectives is an economic journal published by the American Economic Association. The journal is very broad in its scope...
and other professional journals.
His latest books are Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism (2010), The Decline of Latin American Economies (2007), Capital Flows and Capital Controls in Emerging Markets (2007), The Economics and Political Transition to an Open Market Economy: Colombia, (OECD, 2001), Capital Flows and the Emerging Economies, (U. of Chicago Press, 2000), Anatomy of an Emerging-Market Crash: Mexico 1994 (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997) and Labor Markets in Latin America: Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility, (Brookings, 1997). Other books include Crisis and Reform in Latin America: From Despair to Hope (Oxford University Press, 1995), Monetarism and Liberalization, The Chilean Experiment (co-author); Exchange Rate Misalignment in Developing Countries; Real Exchange Rates, Devaluation and Adjustment: Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries; and the Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America (coeditor with Rudi Dornbusch).
Edwards is an associate editor of the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, and Analisis Economico. For almost ten years he was the co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics.
Columnist
His work and views has been frequently quoted in the media, including the New York Times, the Financial TimesFinancial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
, the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, the Wall Street Journal and The Economist
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
. His op-ed pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, El País (Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
), La Vanguardia
La Vanguardia
La Vanguardia is Catalonia's leading daily newspaper as well as the fourth best-selling in Spain. It has its headquarters in Barcelona, Catalonia's largest city....
(Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
), La Nación
La Nación
La Nación is an Argentine daily newspaper. The country's leading conservative paper, the centrist Clarín is its main competitor. It is the only newspaper in Argentina still published in broadsheet format.-Overview:...
(Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
), Clarín
Clarín (newspaper)
Clarín is the largest newspaper in Argentina, published by the Grupo Clarín media group. It was founded by Roberto Noble on 28 August 1945. It is politically centrist but popularly understood to oppose the Kirchner government...
(Argentina), and La Tercera
La Tercera
La Tercera , formerly known as La Tercera de la Hora , is a daily newspaper published in Santiago, Chile and owned by Copesa. It is El Mercurios closest competitor....
(Chile). He is also a columnist for Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate is an international not-for-profit newspaper syndicate and association of newspapers. It distributes commentaries and analysis by experts, activists, Nobel laureates, statesmen, economists, political thinkers, business leaders and academics to its member publications, and...
. He is a frequent guest on CNN en Español and other TV and cable news programs.
Novelist
In 2007 he published the novel El Misterio de las Tanias (Alfaguara), a political thriller involving Cuban spies, political kidnappings, and a fabled ransom worth over one billion dollars. The novel was a bestseller in Chile, where it stayed in the Bestseller list for almost 30 weeks. El Misterio de las Tanias was released in Argentina in mid 2008 and in the rest of the Spanish speaking world in 2009. It is available in the U.S. in bookstores that sell Spanish literature, as well as through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other web-based book sellers.In May 2011 his second novel Un dia perfecto was published by La otra orilla and Editorial Norma. In Un día perfecto two parallel stories develop during one day -- June 10, 1962. On that date Chile's soccer national team unexpectedly defeated the Soviet Union during the World Cup. The first story is a love triangle, while the second one deals with the mysterious disappearance of Lev Yashin, the Soviet famous goalkeeper, known as the "Black Spider". Soon after publication, Un día perfecto joined the list of bestselling novels in Chile. It will be published in the rest of the Spanish speaking world during the second half of 2011.
Other activities
Sebastian Edwards has been a consultant to a number of multilateral institutions, governments and national and international corporations, including the Inter-American Development BankInter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean...
, the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
, the International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Professor Edwards has been an expert witness in a number of securities cases that have been litigated in Federal and State courts, and in a number of arbitration cases.
Sources
- UCLA Anderson School of Management, Faculty webpages
- Sebastián Edwards, Wikipedia español
- Sebastian Edwards' webpage