Vittorio Corbo

Who is Vittorio Corbo?

Vittorio Corbo Lioi is a former Governor of the Central Bank of Chile, who held the post since May 2003 until December 2007.

Corbo studied economics at the University of Chile in 1967 and has a PhD in economics from MIT which he gained in 1971. He taught at Concordia University in Canada between 1972 and 1979. He was appointed a Professor at the Universidad de Chile and at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica and, and a Professorial Lecturer at Georgetown University in the United States. Mr. Corbo worked at the World Bank from 1984 to 1991 as Head of the Macroeconomic Development and Growth Division.

He is also member of the Management Council of the Fundación Chilena del Pacífico, the International Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw, Poland, and from 1999, a member of the Advisory Board of the Stanford Center for International Development. He has also served as a Vice-President of the International Economic Association. In recent years he has been advisor to the World Bank, the IADB and the International Monetary Fund.