Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

Leonor Filardo

The bio below comes from a published article and may now be dated.

Leonor Filardo

Leonor Filardo is an international financial planner and inde­pendent consultant, member of the board of directors and various committees of one of the most important banks in Venezuela, and a member of the CEDICE Academic Commit­tee. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Univer­sidad Católica Andrés Bello and a diploma in international trade and a master’s degree in international economics from the University of Surrey. She has served as vice president of the Central Bank of Venezuela, as an executive director of the World Bank, as an IMF alternate executive director, and as Banco Caracas Finance executive vice presi­dent. She is coauthor of several books on the Venezuelan economy, including Para Rehacer a Venezuela (1998), Misión Riqueza (2007), and Constitución, Socialismo y Mercan­tilismo en América Latina (2008). Her email address is leonorfilardo@​hotmail.com.