## Rodrigo Valdés

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: October 29, 2025

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### Current role
- Rodrigo Valdés assumed the role of Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the IMF on October 27, 2025.
- He is a national of Chile.
- He assumed the role of Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD) at the end of October 2025.

### Prior IMF roles and public-sector experience
- 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:
  - the Ministry of Finance, and
  - 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.
- Chile's Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2017.

### Private-sector and banking experience
- 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.

### Academic background
- Holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Chile.
- 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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## References

- [IMF Senior Officials](https://www.imf.org/en/About/senior-officials)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/about/senior-officials/bios/rodrigo-valdes_