Professional Experience
June 2007–Present
Principal Economist and Head of the
Strategic
Research Unit,
Central and West Asia Department, Asian Development Bank
(Manila, Philippines)
August 2006–June 2007
Principal Economist,
Economics and Research Department,
Asian
Development Bank (Manila, Philippines)
June 2004–August 2006
Senior Economist, Economics and
Research Department, Asian Development Bank (Manila, Philippines)
July 2002–June 2004
Economist,
Economics and Research Department,
Asian
Development Bank
(Manila, Philippines)
January 1999–June 2002
Assistant
Professor,
School of
International Affairs,
Georgia Institute of Technology
(Atlanta, U.S.A), On leave from the Asian Development Bank
Courses
taught: Statistics and Quantitative
Methods (Graduate and Undergraduate); Economic Development (Graduate and
Undergraduate); Current Economic Issues – Open Economy Macroeconomics and
International Political Economy (Graduate and
Undergraduate).
January 1997–December 1998
Economist,
Economic Analysis and Research Division, Asian
Development
Bank (Manila, Philippines)
August 1995–December 1996
Assistant
Professor,
Social Science Division, The Hong Kong
University of
Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
Courses
taught: Applied Econometrics: Time
Series (Graduate); Economic
Development and Growth in East and Southeast Asia (Undergraduate); The
Economics of Technical Progress (Undergraduate); Statistics (Graduate).
1989
Consultant,
Hay Management Consultants (Research for Management Division) (Madrid, Spain)
1988
Economist, (Forecasting and Economic Analysis)
Research Center
“Lawrence R. Klein” (Madrid, Spain)
1987
Economist,
Commercial Office of the Embassy of Spain in
the Netherlands
(The Hague, Netherlands)
Fields of concentration:
Economic Development; Technological Progress; Productivity; Applied
Macroeconomics; Applied Econometrics (Time Series).
Research interests:
Theoretical and empirical problems in the analysis and estimation of
aggregate production functions (foundations of the aggregate production
function); Growth and development in East and Southeast Asia; Determinants of
Technical Progress; Business Cycles and Profit Rates; Unemployment and Income
Distribution; Comparative analysis of Latin America and East and Southeast
Asia; Applied Industrial Organization (markups and market power).
