PhD in Economy from the University of Oxford, PhD in Political Science at the University of Sussex and a Bachelor Degree in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge and a research associate at the Universidad de Santiago and the Universidad de Valparaiso. He worked at the National Planning Office (ODEPLAN), the current Ministry of Social Development of Chile, between 1969 and 1972; he was also a research associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of London and Professor of Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the same university. His main topics of study are the economic policies in Latin America and economic development models.