to economic research, the design of policies, and the creation of research institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean (2006), "Latin America Finance Minister of the Year" by Emerging Markets magazine, published by Euromoney Institutional Investor plc during the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, based on the preferences of the most influential economists, investors and experts in the region (2008), and an award from "América Economía" magazine, which also considered him as "Finance Minister of the Year". In 2009, "Latin Trade" magazine gave him the price for the "Most Innovative Leader of the Year". Publications Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide. Filipe Campante, Federico Sturzenegger, Andrés Velasco. London: LSE Press, 2021 Trade, Development and the World Economy: Selected Essays of Carlos Díaz-Alejandro. A. Velasco, Editor. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Vox Populi (novel). Santiago: Editorial Sudamericana, 1995. Lugares Comunes ("Common Places" / novel). Santiago: Editorial Planeta, 2003. Free Trade and Beyond: Prospects for Integration in the Americas. A. Estevaordal, D. Rodrik, A. Taylor and A. Velasco (eds.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Personal life Velasco is married to journalist Consuelo Saavedra and is the father of three. References External links Official Site (Spanish) Faculty profile at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University Publications at the National Bureau of Economic Research Column archive at Project Syndicate 1960 births Living people Chilean agnostics 20th-century Chilean economists Chilean essayists Chilean Ministers of Finance 20th-century Chilean novelists 20th-century Chilean male writers Chilean male novelists Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Harvard University alumni Harvard Kennedy School faculty Columbia University faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni People from Santiago Yale College alumni Candidates for President of Chile Institute for New Economic Thinking Citizens (Chilean political party) politicians 21st-century Chilean economists