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Carlos Fernández Valdovinos (born February 9, 1965 in Asunción, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan economist. On October 3, 2013 Valdovinos was appointed president of the Central Bank of Paraguay.
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Education
Valdovinos earned his degree in economics from Universidad Federal de Paraná in 1990. He received his MSc in economics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1994 and his Ph.D. in economics from University of Chicago in 1999, with the presentation of the doctoral thesis "Inflation and welfare in an endogenously growing economy". Robert E. Lucas (Chairman), Larry Sjaastad and Fernando Alvarez served as members of the evaluation committee.
Career
Valdovinos started his career at the Central Bank of Paraguay as the Section Head for Monetary Programming in 1991-1992. He served as an advisor for the Managing Director of the Economic Research Division in 1999-2001, and was later appointed Managing Director of the same Division in 2001 and served until 2004.
Beginning in 2004, Valdovinos transferred to the World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C., where he served as senior economist covering Argentina until 2006. Later, Valdovinos served in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as senior economist covering the EMEA region from 2006-2011. Furthermore, he served as the IMF Resident Representative in Bolivia and Brazil.
On October 3, 2013 Valdovinos was nominated to replace Jorge Corvalan as president of the Central Bank of Paraguay.
In the academic field, Valdovinos was a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción and Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. He has also lectured at Georgetown University and University of Chicago, with the doctoral thesis "Inflation and welfare in an endogenously growing economy".