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  "title": "Rodrigo Valdés",
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  "summary": "Rodrigo Valdés assumed the role of Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the IMF on October 27, 2025. Mr. Valdés is a Chilean economist and was the Director of the Western Hemisphere Department at the IMF from May 2023 until October 2025.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-29",
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      "heading": "Current role",
      "content": "- Rodrigo Valdés assumed the role of Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the IMF on October 27, 2025.\n- He is a national of Chile.\n- He assumed the role of Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) at the end of October 2025."
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    {
      "heading": "Prior IMF roles and public-sector experience",
      "content": "- Director of the Western Hemisphere Department at the IMF from May 2023 until October 2025.\n- Served as deputy director in the WHD and EUR departments of the IMF.\n- Spent more than 16 years in Chile's public sector in leading positions at:\n  - the Ministry of Finance, and\n  - the Central Bank of Chile, where he was Director of Research and Chief Economist responsible for producing the Bank's Monetary Policy Report and overseeing macroeconomic analysis.\n- Chile's Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2017."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Private-sector and banking experience",
      "content": "- Worked at BTG Pactual, heading the macroeconomic research team for Latin America excluding Brazil.\n- Served as Board and Executive Committee President at Banco Estado, Chile's sole state-owned bank.\n- Worked at Barclays Capital in New York as Director and Chief Economist for Latin America."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Academic background",
      "content": "- Holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n- Holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Chile.\n- Earlier in his career, he was a professor of economics in the School of Government at the Catholic University of Chile."
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    "Director of the Western Hemisphere Department at the IMF from May 2023 until October 2025.",
    "Served as deputy director in the WHD and EUR departments of the IMF.",
    "Spent more than 16 years in Chile's public sector in leading positions at:",
    "Chile's Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2017.",
    "Worked at BTG Pactual, heading the macroeconomic research team for Latin America excluding Brazil.",
    "Served as Board and Executive Committee President at Banco Estado, Chile's sole state-owned bank.",
    "Worked at Barclays Capital in New York as Director and Chief Economist for Latin America.",
    "Holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.",
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