Luis Valdivieso Montano
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Luis Miguel Valdivieso Montano became the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Peru in the United States on February 17, 2009, after being Minister of Economy and Finance Peru from mid – 2008 until January 2009.
Prior to joining the IMF, Mr. Valdivieso was a Senior Researcher, Center for Latin American Monetary Studies, advisor to Bank and Securities Market Directorate of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit in Mexico and advisor to the Superintendence of Banks of Ecuador. Also, he taught Introductory Economics and Advanced Macroeconomics at Boston University and was an Econometrics Instructor at the Catholic University of Peru.
Mr. Valdivieso holds a B.A. in Economics from the Catholic University of Peru, and a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from Boston University.
In this capacity, he was also Governor for Peru in the Board of Governors of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, as well as Chairman of the Board of the Andean Finance Corporation (CAF), the National Fund for the Financing of the Public Sector Entrepreneurial Activity (FONAFE), and member of the Board of the Peruvian National Retirement Investment Fund (ONP), the Private Investment Promotion Agency (PROINVERSION), and the Inter-ministerial Committee of Social Affairs (CIAS).
Most of Mr. Valdivieso’s professional career was at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he worked for 28 years starting in 1980. He held senior management positions in various departments, including Advisor and Division Chief, positions in the Asia and Pacific Department (1999–2008) as well as the European Department (1991–1999), which covered all the countries of the former Soviet Union. Moreover, he held Senior Economist positions in the Policy Development and Review Department (1997–1999), and the Western Hemisphere Department (1980–1987).
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