Raimundo Soto

Associate Professor of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Raimundo Soto is Associate Professor of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University. He specializes in macroeconomics and econometrics and has published extensively in international journals covering long-run growth, exchange rate misalignment, and monetary policy, as well as corruption, resource curse, institutions, and labor markets. He has been visiting scholar in institutions in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America and international organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, IDB and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He served as president of the Chilean Economic Association and, between 2010 and 2012, he was Director of International Development at the Dubai Economic Council. He is the managing editor of the Middle East Development Journal.