Spring Meetings

Sebastián Corrales
Head of Fiscal Policy Analysis Division,
Colombian Central Bank

Sebastián Corrales is Head of the Fiscal Policy Analysis Division at Banco de la República, Colombian Central Bank. He formerly led the Macroeconomic Analysis Division at Fedesarrollo, Colombia’s most important economic think tank, worked as assistant to the Director of Macroeconomic Policy in the Ministry of Finance and as research analyst at the International Monetary Fund.

Daniel Wills
Deputy Director of Macroeconomic Programming,
Colombia's Ministry of Finance

Daniel Wills is the Deputy Director of Macroeconomic Planning at the office of macroeconomic policy direction of the Colombian Ministry of Finance. Prior to joining the Ministry, he worked as an assistant professor at Universidad de Los Andes. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Fernando Delgado
Institute for Capacity Development,
IMF

Fernando L. Delgado is the Deputy Chief for the Western Hemisphere Division of the IMF Institute for Capacity Development. He previously served as Deputy Division Chief and mission chief for Nicaragua at the Western Hemisphere Department, Coordinator of the Regional Center for Technical Assistance and Resident Regional Representative for Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic. He also was the mission chief for Bahrain and Djibouti, and for technical assistance missions on financial sector issues to several countries in Latin America. Prior to his work at the IMF, Dr. Delgado was the General Manager of the International Division of Caja de Madrid, Chairman of the Economic and Monetary Policy Committee of the European Group of Savings Banks, member of the Executive Board of Caymadrid International Ltd., and Associate Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has a PhD in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid, an MBA from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a Master's Degree in Banking Management from IESE. He has published several books and articles, mainly on applied economics and the financial sector.

Andrés González
Institute for Capacity Development,
IMF

Andrés González is an Economist in the Western Hemisphere Division of the IMF Institute for Capacity Development. Mr. González worked previously at Banco de la República (the Colombian central bank) as Chief Officer of Monetary Policy and Economic Information, Chief Officer of Economic Research, and Director Macroeconomic Modeling Department. Mr. González was an Associate Professor at the Universidad de los Andes and has published several articles in academic journals. Mr. González's areas of specialization are macroeconomic and econometrics. He has consulted on these issues for the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in Rwanda, and several central banks in Central America. Mr. González holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Econometrics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Diego Rodríguez
Institute for Capacity Development,
IMF

Diego Rodríguez Guzmán is a Senior Economist in the African Division of the IMF Institute for Capacity Development. His research has focused on monetary policy, international finance, fiscal policy, commodity prices, and DSGE models, including publications in the Journal of International Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, and other refereed journals. Before joining the IMF, he worked as Director of the Modeling Department at central bank of Colombia. In that institution, he built and implemented macroeconomic models for policy analysis and forecasting. Additionally, he worked as a consultant in developing general equilibrium models for the IMF, IDB, FLAR, and several Central Banks in Latin America and Central America. He holds an M.A. in economics from Boston University.