Professor of Economics, Yale University
Eduardo Engel is Professor of Economics at Yale University and research associate at the NBER and the University of Chile (CEA). Yale's graduate students in economics voted him Teacher of the Year in 2001, 2003 and 2009. He has published widely in the areas of macroeconomics, public finance and regulation and was awarded the Econometric Society's Frisch Medal in 2002. His current research interests include the economics of infrastructure, fiscal rules, and macroeconomic models with heterogeneous agents. He recently finished writing the first draft of a book on public-private partnerships, jointly with Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic. He has been a consultant to many multilateral organizations and governments. Engel holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University, and an engineering degree from the University of Chile.
Professor, Center for Applied Economics at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile in Santiago
Ronald D. Fischer is a Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Chile, Santiago. Has a wide publication record in regulation, industrial organization and international trade. In the last decade he has worked intensely in the theory and applications of PPPs. Has consulted for the IMF, the World Bank, and the AIBD, as well as for the government and private firms. Member of the Technical Panel of PPPs in Chile and of the editorial board of the newspaper El Mercurio. He has a degree in mathematical engineering from the University of Chile and a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor of Economics, Universidad de los Andes in Santiago
Alexander Galetovic is Professor of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago. He has been a Research Scholar at the International Monetary Fund, a Visiting Professor at Stanford and a Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He's also listed among Who's Who Legal's Competition Economists. He holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree from the Catholic University of Chile and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
His current research interests are the determinants of industry structure, antitrust, the economics of regulated industries (particularly electricity and telecoms) and the economics of public private partnerships.