Carlos Fernández Valdovinos

Carlos Fernández Valdovinos (born February 9, 1965, in Asunción, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan economist.

Fernández Valdovinos earned his degree in economics from the Universidade Federal do Paraná in 1990.

He received his M.Sc.

Fernández Valdovinos began his career at the Central Bank of Paraguay as the Section Head for Monetary Programming in 1991–1992.

in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1994, and his Ph.D. in economics from University of Chicago in 1999, with the presentation of the doctoral thesis "Inflation and welfare in an endogenously growing economy".

Robert E. Lucas (Chairman), Larry Sjaastad, and Fernando Alvarez served as members of the evaluation committee.

He served as an advisor for the managing director of the Economic Research Division in 1999–2001, and was later appointed managing director of the same division in 2001 and served until 2004.

Beginning in 2004, Fernández Valdovinos transferred to the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he served as senior economist covering Argentina until 2006.

Later, he served in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as senior economist covering the EMEA region from 2006 to 2011.

Furthermore, he served as the IMF Resident Representative in Bolivia and Brazil.

Between October 2013 and August 2018 he was the president of the Central Bank of Paraguay.

On October 3, 2013, Fernández Valdovinos was nominated to replace Jorge Corvalan as president of the Central Bank of Paraguay, until August 2018.

In October 2018, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Banco Basa.

In the academic field, Fernández Valdovinos was a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción and Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción.

He has also lectured at Georgetown University and the University of Chicago, with the doctoral thesis "Inflation and welfare in an endogenously growing economy".