Felipe Larraín is currently a Full Professor at the Catholic University of Chile and Director of the Latin American Center for Economic and Social Policies (CLAPES UC). In 2014, he became a member of the UN Leaders' Council for Sustainable Development. He holds a Master's and PhD in Economics from Harvard University and a degree in Business Administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He served as Chile's Minister of Finance from 2010 to 2014, and again from 2018 to 2019. He became Vice President of Chile in February 2014. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard University; he was later a Faculty Fellow (2000-2002) at Harvard.

Since 1985, he has served as an economic advisor to the governments of Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela. He has also been a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.

He has also been a consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. He has also served as a consultant and board member for various companies in Chile, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

Professor Larraín has published 15 books and approximately 140 articles in specialized journals and books in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Asia. His book "Macroeconomics in the Global Economy," written with Professor Jeffrey Sachs, has been translated into 10 languages, including German, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian.

He has received numerous recognitions and awards, including: Best Sovereign Green Bond Issue 2019; Finance Minister of the Year for the Americas (The Banker, 2018); Selected as one of the 100 most influential global leaders by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) (2015); Best Sovereign Bond Issue 2012-2013 (Latin Finance); Minister of Finance of the Year for the Americas (The Banker, 2010); Minister of Finance of the Year for Latin America (Emerging Markets, América Economía, Latin Finance, 2010-11); Economist of the Year 2010 (El Mercurio).