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Place of Birth: Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
About Sebastián Edwards
- Sebastián Edwards (born 16 August 1953, Santiago, Chile) a member of the Edwards family is a Chilean economist, professor, speaker, and consultant.
- He is currently the Henry Ford II Professor of International Business Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
- From 1993 until April 1996, he was the Chief Economist for the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank.
- He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a member of the advisory board of Transnational Research Corporation and co-chairman of the Inter American Seminar on Economics (IASE).
- He is the Past President of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), an international professional association of economists with academic interests in Latin America and the Caribbean region.
- He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel-Germany.
- He is a member of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Council of Economic Advisors. From 1981 through 1993, he was an assistant, associate, and full Professor of economics at UCLA.
- From 2000 to 2004, he was Professor Extraordinario at the IAE, Universidad Austral, Argentina. Sebastian Edwards was born in Santiago, Chile.
- He was educated at the Catholic University of Chile, and received an M.A.
- and Ph.D.
- in economics from the University of Chicago.
- He is married to economist Alejandra Cox Edwards.
- They have three grown children and 4 grandchildren.
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