José Antonio Ocampo Joins IPD as Co-President
José Antonio Ocampo Joins IPD as Co-President
ISERP welcomes José Antonio Ocampo as Co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD). With Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Ocampo will direct IPD's activities, which help developing countries explore policy alternatives and enable wider civic participation in economic policymaking. He is also Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.
Prior to his appointment at Columbia, Ocampo served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, and head of UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), as Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and has held a number of high-level posts in the Government of Colombia, including Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Director of the National Planning Department, and Minister of Agriculture.
Ocampo has also served as Executive Director of FEDESARROLLO, the main think tank on economic issues in Colombia, Director of the Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Economico of Universidad de los Andes, Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes, and Professor of Economic History at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has also been Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Oxford and Yale Universities and lectured in many universities and conferences around the world.
Ocampo is author or editor of over 30 books and has published over 200 scholarly articles on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history.
