FACTBOX-Valdivieso, Peru's incoming finance minister

Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:07pm EDT
 
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July 13 (Reuters) - Peruvian Finance Minister Luis Carranza is expected to be replaced on Monday by Luis Valdivieso, who has spent most of his career working for the International Monetary Fund. Below are some facts about him:

* Valdivieso, 58, studied economics at Boston University, where he received a doctorate.

* He worked on IMF structural reform programs in emerging markets including Mexico (1982-1987) and Russia (1992-1996).

* He served as the IMF's chief of mission in East Timor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and in 2005 and 2006 was the IMF's representative in war-torn Sri Lanka.

* He helped design the Peruvian economic program for 1990-92, and served as an adviser to Peru's finance ministry in 1991, when the ministry was run by Carlos Bolona.

* Before 1980, he worked at the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies and was an adviser to the Ministry of Finance of Mexico.

* He has contributed to IMF working papers on issues including the impact of debt loads on economic growth, monetary policy, and the effects of capital controls in Malaysia.

Sources: IMF, Boston University, Peruvian magazine Caretas, and La Republica newspaper. (Compiled by Terry Wade and Marco Aquino, editing by Maureen Bavdek)

 

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