The International Monetary Fund will hold a two-day seminar on April 15-16 in honor of Guillermo Calvo, the Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank and a former senior advisor to the IMF.
The conference at IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C., will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday and conclude at 5:30 p.m. Friday, featuring presentations and panel discussions involving more than 50 of the leading economic and financial specialists on Latin America. Topics for discussion include monetary policy, political economy, debt, inflation, exchange rates and crisis resolution.
In announcing the conference in Calvo’s honor, the IMF described him as “one of the most influential macroeconomists of the past 25 years.” It said that during Calvo’s tenure at the IMF the organization’s Research Department “carried out path-breaking research on, among other issues, capital flows, debt maturity and inflation stabilization.”
Calvo, director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland, was appointed chief economist of the IDB in June 2001. He was a senior advisor at the Research Department of the IMF from 1987 to 1994.