Sebastian Edwards

Sebastian Edwards (b. 1953 Santiago, Chile) is a well known international economist, professor, speaker, and consultant. He is currently the Henry Ford II Professor of International Business Economics at the Anderson Graduate 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 is 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 up children and a grand child.

Author and Editor

Edwards is the author of more that 200 scientific articles on international economics, macroeconomics, exchange rates, country risk, international investment, and economic development. His articles have appeared in The American Economic Review, 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 “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 Times, 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.

Novelist

In 2007 he published the novel “El Misterio de las Tanias” (Alfaguara). This novel is 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” will be released in Argentina in mid 2008. 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.

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 Bank, the World Bank, the IMF, and the OECD

Professor Edwards has been an expert witness in a number of securities cases that have been litigated in Federal and State courts, as well as in a number of arbitration cases.

External links

* [http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/sebastian.edwards/ Sebastian Edwards, UCLA]
* [http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/sebastian.edwards/Tanias.html “El misterio de las Tanias”]
* [http://www.nber.org/cgi-bin/author_papers.pl?author=sebastian_edwards NBER Working Papers by Sebastian Edwards]
* [http://www.project-syndicate.org/contributor/96 Sebastian Edwards at Project syndicated]

ources

* [http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x1308.xml UCLA Anderson School of Management, Faculty webpages]
* [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Edwards Sebastián Edwards, Wikipedia español]
* [http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/sebastian.edwards/ Sebastian Edwards' webpage]