ROBERTO ZAHLER |
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Roberto Zahler is President of the consultancy firm Zahler & Co and Chairman of Siemens Chile S.A. He is a member of the Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (LASFRC) and of the Emerging Market Economies Eminent Persons Group (EMEEPG), a Board member of Banco Santander-Chile, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank Americas Bond Fund (NewYork).
Between 1998 and 2000 he was a member of the Institute of International Finance (IIF) International Jury, for the "The Jacques de Larosiére Competition" Between May 1999 and May 2000 he was a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Quota Formula Review Group (QFRG). From April 1999 until May 2000 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Research Department of the IMF and a Director of "The Five Arrows Chile Investment Trust" (London). In 1988, 1999 and 2000 Mr. Zahler was a member of the Joint Committee on Remuneration (JCR) of the World Bank (WB) and IMF Executive Directors and their Alternates.
He was President of the Central Bank of Chile from December 1991 until June 1996 and Vice-President from April 1990 until November 1991.
Prior to that, he served in a range of positions in the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/United Nations). From 1984 until 1989 he was ECLAC's Chief Regional Adviser in Monetary and Financial Policy and from 1978 until 1983 he worked as Monetary Expert in the UNDP/ECLAC Project "Implications for Latin America of the Situation of the International Monetary and Financial System".
He has been a consultant to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), IMF, International Labour Organisation (ILO - PREALC) and the WB. Mr. Zahler has given technical assistance to the Central Banks and/or Ministry's of Finance of Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico and Uruguay; and to the International Fund For Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Pro-Tempore Secretariat of the Cartagena Agreement and Latin-American Economic System (SELA).
Mr. Zahler has been a speaker, lecturer, panelist and discussant in Chilean and foreign universities, as well as in many international meetings. He is author of more than ninety publications and articles in books and internationals journals.
Mr. Zahler has an M.A and Ph.D. © in economics from the University of Chicago and has a B.A in economics from the University of Chile, where he has taught Macroeconomics, International economics and Monetary theory and policy.
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