Liliana Rojas-Suarez

Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Nationality	Peru
Field	Financial regulation, Financial crises, International development
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Liliana Rojas-Suarez is a Peruvian-born economist, specializing in financial regulatory policy and the impact of global capital flows on development, especially in Latin American countries. She is currently a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and serves as the chair of the Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF). She is also the current President of the International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA)^[1] and a member of the board of trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute.^[2]

Rojas-Suarez received a B.A. from the Catholic University of Peru in 1975, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Ottawa in 1975, and a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1984. She has served as the chief economist for Latin America at Deutsche Bank (1998–2000) and as principal advisor to the chief economist at the Inter-American Development Bank (1994–1998). She spent a decade working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where her final position was as Deputy Chief of the Capital Markets and Financial Studies Division. She has also taught at Mexico's Anahuac University, been a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and worked as an economic advisor to PEMEX, Mexico's state-owned petroleum company.^[3]

Rojas-Suarez' 2010 book, Growing Pains in Latin America, presents guidance for market-oriented reforms in the specific political, economic, and historical context of Latin America.^[4]

Books

• Growing Pains in Latin America: An Economic Growth Framework as Applied to Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru,(editor) Center for Global Development, Washington D.C., 2009
• Los Desafíos del Crecimiento en América Latina: Un Nuevo Enfoque, (editor) Center for Global Development, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico DF, 2009
• Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism (ed. with Nancy Birdsall), Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C., September 2004
• Los Seguros de Depósitos en los Países Andinos: Propuestas para un Régimen Común, (with G. Arteta, A. Carrasquilla, Gustavo García, Martin Naranjo and Xavier Nogales), IDB/Andean Community, Lima, November 2001
• Why so High?: Understanding Interest Rate Spreads in Latin America (ed. With Philip Brock), IDB, Washington, DC, 2000
• Financial Regulation: Why. How and Where Now?, with Charles Goodhart, Philipp Hartmann, David Llewellyn and Steven Weisbrod, Routledge, London 1998
• Safe and Sound Financial Systems: What Works for Latin America?, (ed) IDB, Washington, D.C. 1997.
• Banking Crises in Latin America (ed. with Ricardo Hausmann), IDB, Washington, D.C.,
• Volatile Capital Flows: Taming their Impact on Latin America, (ed. with Ricardo Hausmann), IDB, Washington, D.C., 1996.

References

External links

• Rojas-Suarez' CV, from the Center for Global Development
• Publications hosted by the Social Science Research Network
• List of publications at the Inter-American Development Bank
• Rojas-Suarez' homepage at the Center for Global Development