Rodrigo Valdés

Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department

Rodrigo Valdés, a national of Chile, assumed the role of Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) at the end of October 2025. Prior to this, he was a Director of Western Hemisphere Department. Earlier in his career, he was a professor of economics in the School of Government at the Catholic University of Chile and held the position of Chile's Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2017. Rodrigo also has impressive experience in the public and private sector and is highly respected as an academic. He spent more than 16 years in Chile's public sector serving in various leading positions both at the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank, where he was Director of Research and Chief Economist responsible for producing the Bank's Monetary Policy Report and overseeing macroeconomic analysis. He also served as deputy director in the WHD and EUR departments of the IMF. In the banking sector he worked at BTG Pactual, he headed the macroeconomic research team for Latin America excluding Brazil, and he was Board and Executive Committee President at Banco Estado, Chile's sole state-owned bank. He also worked at Barclays Capital in New York as Director and Chief Economist for Latin America. Rodrigo holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Chile.