Andrés Solimano

Andrés Solimano (1956) is regional advisor at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). He was at the World Bank for ten years where he held positions of country director, economic advisor and senior economist. He was executive director at the Boards of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter- American Investment Corporation (IIC), and representative of Chile at the donors committee of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) in Washington. He was the chairman of the Programming Committee of the Board of Executive Directors of the IDB. He is the general editor of the series Distributive Justice and Economic Development from the University of Michigan Press and has authored various books and articles on economic reform, growth, development, income distribution, international migration and political economy.