Luis Felipe Céspedes is a professor at the School of Business of Adolfo Ibáñez University. He has also taught macroeconomics and international economics at the University of Chile and the Catholic University of Chile. Before his current appointment, between March 2014 and August 2017, he was the minister of economy, development, and tourism of Chile under Bachelet administration. Between 2012 and February 2014, he was a member of the Consejo Técnico de Inversiones, which produces reports, proposals, and statements regarding pension funds and unemployment. In the public sector, Céspedes served as coordinator of economic policies and chief economic advisor in the Chilean Finance Ministry from 2006 to 2009. He also managed economic research at the Central Bank of Chile. A publisher of several research papers on international economics, Céspedes has been a guest researcher at the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, and at the Economics Department of Rutgers University. He earned his PhD in economics from New York University and also holds a degree in economics from the Catholic University of Chile.

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Michael has been involved in emerging market equity research and portfolio management since 1991.  After a brief spell in investment banking, Michael became active in Latin American equity research and sales in 1991.  He began managing equity investments in Latin America and Emerging Europe in 1999 at Wafra Investments in New York.  Most recently, he was a portfolio manager for Principal Global Investors, where he led the emerging markets team from 2001 to 2012. While there, Michael managed the diversified emerging markets portfolios and specialized regional Asian equity strategies. He also worked with Principal’s subsidiary in Chile, consulting on their fund lineup, and helped them to develop a quantitative equity process to beat the IPSA and IGPA (local Chilean indices).  In addition, Michael also coordinated research efforts across multiple Principal Financial Group subsidiaries in EM, including Chile, Brazil, Mexico, India and China.  In late 2012 Michael joined RS Investments with his 10 member team to build up their in house emerging market expertise.  RS Investments was acquired by Victory Capital in 2016.

Michael holds a B.A. from Middlebury College. He earned his M.A. – History from Christ's College at the University of Cambridge with an emphasis in the Middle Ages and Modern European history.  Michael earned his M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. Michael speaks four languages and has lived in seven countries.

Luis Felipe Céspedes is a professor at the School of Business of Adolfo Ibáñez University. He has also taught macroeconomics and international economics at the University of Chile and the Catholic University of Chile. Before his current appointment, between March 2014 and August 2017, he was the minister of economy, development, and tourism of Chile under Bachelet administration. Between 2012 and February 2014, he was a member of the Consejo Técnico de Inversiones, which produces reports, proposals, and statements regarding pension funds and unemployment. In the public sector, Céspedes served as coordinator of economic policies and chief economic advisor in the Chilean Finance Ministry from 2006 to 2009. He also managed economic research at the Central Bank of Chile. A publisher of several research papers on international economics, Céspedes has been a guest researcher at the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, and at the Economics Department of Rutgers University. He earned his PhD in economics from New York University and also holds a degree in economics from the Catholic University of Chile.

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