Jose De Gregorio, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since March 2014, is full professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Chile. He was governor of the Central Bank of Chile from 2007 until 2011. Before that he was vice-governor from 2003 and member of the bank's board from 2001. During 2000 and 2001, De Gregorio was minister of the combined portfolios of economy, mining, and energy. Between 1997 and 2000 he was professor and head of postgraduate programs at the Center of Applied Economics at the University of Chile. He also served on the executive board of the Latin American Doctoral Program in Economics. From 1994 to 1997, he was coordinator of economic policy at the Ministry of Finance, Chile. From 1990 to 1994 he worked as an economist in the research department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).