F. ALEJANDRO VILLAGOMEZ AMEZCUA

Simon Fraser University

Provost of CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas). Former Dean of CIDE’s Economics Department 2000-2003 He completed a PhD in Economics at Washington University, U.S.A. 1988-1992. He belongs to the SNI, National System of Researchers (level II); member of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, member of the Advising Committee of the North American Economics and Finance Association, and he is also a member of the Technical Advising Committee of the private sector’s Center of Economic Studies CEESP . He has been a professor at CIDE, at the UNAM’s Economic Department, at the ITESM and at Washington University. He has published a number of articles in national and international magazines such as: “La Estructura de la Deuda Pública en México” along with Fausto Hernández, Revista de Análisis Económico, Vol.16, No. 1, July, 2001; “El Ahorro de los Hogares de Bajos Ingresos en México” along with Ricardo Fuentes, El Trimestre Económico, January-March 2001; “Regímenes Cambiantes, Estructura de Deuda y Fragilidad Bancaria en México” with Rodolfo Cermeño and Fausto Hernández, in Estudios Económicos, 2001. “La Sustentabilidad de la Política Fiscal en México” 1999 in Trimestre Económico; "Pension System Reform: The Mexican Case", with Carlos Sales and Fernando Solís, in Privatizing Social Security, ed. Martin Feldstein, NBER and The University of Chicago Press, 1998; "The Responsiveness of Private Savings to the Interest Rate in Less Developed Countries: Recent Evidence", Applied Economics, May 1997;"Domestic Savings in Mexico and Pension Reform", with Fernando Solís, in Assessing Neo-Liberal Reform, de. M. Serrano, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 1997. "Aggregate Consumption, Interest Rates and Inflation in Less Developed Countries: An Error Correction Model", Journal of Development Studies, Nº1, 1994. He has published a variety of books. The most recent one is “La Seguridad Social en México” along with Fernando Solís, which was published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica. He was a member of the jury in the National Prize of Economics BANAMEX, 2000-2002; and he is a member of the jury in the “Jesús Silva Herzog” Prize of the IIE, UNAM and of the Social Security Prize of the CISS. “He has also participated in various national and international lectures on subjects such as savings, the financial system and the pensions system. He was coordinator of the Mexican Group for the Development of Financial Markets at the PECC (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council). He was advisor for the President in the CONSAR 1995-2000 as well as for Dr. Luis Ernesto Derbez in the transition team (2000). He has a weekly column in the newspaper ‘El Universal’ and comments about the economic news in channel eleven.