José De Gregorio is Full Professor and Dean of the School of Economics and Business of Universidad de Chile. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was the President of the Central Bank of Chile from 2007 until 2011, after being its Vice-President from 2003, and member of the Bank's Board from 2001. During 2000 and 2001, Mr. De Gregorio was Minister of the combined portfolios of Economy, Mining and Energy.

During his professional life he has received a number of honors and awards, such as “Central Banker of the Year in Latin America for 2008,” awarded by The Banker, member of the Financial Times editorial group; named “Distinguished Industrial Engineer of 2007” by the Industrial Engineering-Universidad de Chile Alumni Association; and “Economist of the year” by El Mercurio in 2011, among others. He has a degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Chile, where he received the “Marcos Orrego Puelma” award for the best graduate of his generation. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1990.

He has published four books, including IMF Reform: The Unfinished Agenda (co-authors: B. Eichengreen, C. Wyplosz y T. Ito, 2018), and Macroeconomía. Teoría y Políticas (Pearson, 2007). He is also the author of more than one hundred articles in international academic journals and books on issues including monetary policy, exchange rates, international finance and economic growth.