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Guillermo Perry

Created: 10/3/2017
Updated: 10/3/2017
Visits: 1,065
Dr. Guillermo Perry
Visiting Professor

Universidad de los Andes
Facultad de Economia
Cra. 1 #18a-12
Bogotá
Colombia

gperry@uniandes.edu.co
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Biography
Guillermo Perry is presently a Professor at the School of Economics at Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia and a Non Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development, Washington D.C.. He was formerly the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank from 1996 to 2007 , Minister of Finance and Public Credit (1994/96) and of Mining and Energy (1986/88) and Member of the Constitutional assembly of 1991 in his home country, Colombia. He was also Director of Colombia’s two leading economic think-tanks, FEDESARROLLO and the Center for Economic Development Studies (CEDE), a Visiting Fellow at St Anthonys College at Oxford University (1977/78) and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at the MPA-ID program in the Kennedy School at Harvard University (2010/11).

He is or has been a member of various Boards and Advisory Committees, such as: the Global Development Network (GDN) Governing Body, the Latin American Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson Institute, the Executive Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association (LACEA) and the Board of Directors of FEDESARROLLO, Universidad de Los Andes, Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional, Banco de Bogotá, BAC Credomatic, Ecopetrol, ISA and Empresa de Energía Eléctrica de Bogota, among others. He has also served in several Government appointed Advisory Commissions (Intergovernmental Public Finances -1983-, Employment -1990-, Capital Markets -1994-, Infrastructure -2012- and Tax Reform -2015-) in Colombia. He has had broad consulting experience around the world in public finances, tax, energy policy and industrial policies, through the previous Harvard Institute for International Development (presently CID), the World Bank, IDB and other institutions.

Mr. Perry attended the Ph.D. program in Economics and Operational Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1968-1973).


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