Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BA and a MA in Economics from the Catholic University of Chile.
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel is an international consultant, advisor, and public speaker. He is Professor of Economics at Universidad del Desarrollo. Dr. Schmidt-Hebbel is a board member of Banco BCI and was a board member of AFP Habitat. He is a board member of Reforestemos Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Council of Climate Action, the Technical Group for the Strategy of Economic Tools to Accelerate the Energy Transition, the Commission of Institutionality and Philantropy of Wilderness Areas, and the Council for the Development of National Manufacturing. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Chilean Chapter of Transparency International, theChilean Foundation for the Pacific, and Fiscalía Privada.
He held the position of Chief Economist of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Director of the OECD Economics Department in Paris in 2008-2009. He was Chief of Economic Research at the Central Bank of Chile during the previous 12 years. Before that he was Principal Economist in the Research Department of the World Bank in Washington.
He has been Chairman of Chile’s Advisory Fiscal Council, Chairman of the Financial Advisory Board of Chile’s Sovereign Wealth Funds, General Director of Grupo Res Publica Chile, President of the Chilean Economic Association, and President of the Monetary Club.
He has worked as advisor and consultant with more than 85 international organizations, global and national corporations, 40 governments, 30 central banks, and many universities, conducting research and providing key financial and policy advice on a wide array of topics, ranging from financial markets, macroeconomics and growth policies, to pension systems and capital market reform, institutional organization and policy design. He has been invited as speaker on financial, macroeconomic, and development issues to hundreds of international conferences and meetings of international corporations, as well as official and academic organizations.
He has published 16 books and hundreds of scientific publications in international journals and books in the fields of international finance, macroeconomics, monetary policy, economic growth, and development. He contributes regularly columns and op-ed pieces to newspapers and electronic media.
