Heinz Rudolph

Heinz Rudolph, is currently Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank. His main areas of work are in the areas of pension systems. Mr. Rudolph worked between 1995 and 2004 at the Ministry of Finance of Chile. In 1999 he became Director of International Finance and Capital Markets of that institution, and he lead three reforms in the capital market area conducted to enhance competition and complete markets in the areas of pension, insurance, project financing and banking. He was also responsible for the debt financing of the Government and the internationalization of the local currency. In addition to his duties at the Government, he taught Financial Economics in various Universities in Chile, and was member of the board of directors of two state own companies. After leaving the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Rudolph worked one year a Senior Economist at the IMF. Mr. Rudolph received a Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University.