Andrés Velasco is the Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE). Since 2021, he has been a member of the External Advisory Group to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the High-Level Advisory Group (HLAG) of the IMF and the World Bank. He is also a member of the Latin American Committee on Macroeconomic and Financial Affairs (CLAAF).

His research has been published in top-tier academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Development Economics.

Between 2017 and 2018, he was a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Group. From 2015 to 2016, he co-chaired the global panel on the future of multilateral lending institutions. From 2013 to 2016, he was a member of the Global Oceans Commission.

He was a presidential candidate in Chile in 2013 and served as Minister of Finance between 2006 and 2010. During his tenure, he was recognized as Finance Minister of the Year in Latin America by various international publications.

He was a Professor of Professional Practice in International Development at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (2013-17), and the Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School (2000-06). Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. In 2006, he received the Inter-American Development Bank Prize for Excellence in Economic Research.

He holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University and a BA in Economics and Philosophy, and a master’s degree in international relations from Yale University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Economy at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).