Jorge Braga de Macedo, Background

Jorge Braga de Macedo joined CIGI’s International Board of Governors in 2004, and previously served as Portugal's minister of finance and president of the OECD Development Centre. He is also special adviser to the Secretary-General of the OECD and associate professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, both in Paris.

He is research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts; research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research, London, England and corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. He was educated in France, Portugal and the US, where he obtained a Ph. D in economics from Yale University and taught at Yale and Princeton.