Professor Eduardo Engel

Eduardo Engel is Professor of Economics at the University of Chile and Visiting Professor at Yale University, Connecticut. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and was awarded the society's Frisch Medal in 2002. He has published in leading academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He began working on public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the mid-1990s and has consulted on this topic for...See more

Eduardo Engel is Professor of Economics at the University of Chile and Visiting Professor at Yale University, Connecticut. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and was awarded the society's Frisch Medal in 2002. He has published in leading academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He began working on public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the mid-1990s and has consulted on this topic for governments and multilaterals, such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the European Investment Bank. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Infrastructure and former chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Public-Private Investment Advisory Facility (PPIAF) in Washington, DC. He has also taught short courses on PPPs at various universities and multilateral organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Toulouse School of Economics. He holds a PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a PhD in statistics from Stanford University, California, and an engineering degree from the University of Chile. See less