Moderating Fluctuations in Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies

About the Author

Roberto Zahler
President
Zahler & Co.

Roberto Zahler is President of Zahler & Co (www.zahleryco.cl), Board member of Banco Santander-Chile and member of the Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (LASFRC; www.claaf.org). 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 worked in ECLAC (UN) and was Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Chile’s Faculty of Economics. He has been a consultant to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), IMF and the World Bank. He has given technical assistance to most Latin-American countries, Indonesia and Kosovo, IFAD (UN), ECA (UN), and to the Latin-American Economic System (SELA). Mr. Zahler is author of more than one hundred publications and articles in books and internationals journals. He has an M.A in Economics from the University of Chicago and a B.A in Economics from the University of Chile, where he has taught Macroeconomics, International Economics and Monetary Theory and Policy.