William G. Tyler

Rua Barao de Jaguaribe, 381/401
Ipanema
22411-000 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Tel: (55-21) 2259-4659

wtyler@attglobal.net

Summary of Capabilities and Achievements

•  a professional economist with more than 30 years of experience conducting, participating in, supervising and managing policy oriented research and programs of assistance, now a Senior Fellow at the Boston Institute for Developing Economies (BIDE) and Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics of the State University of Rio de Janeiro; has worked in Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Iran, Jordan, Nicaragua, Oman, Palestine (West Bank and Gaza), Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, East Timor, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Yemen. 
• Major strengths:
  professional interests and concerns, while covering a wide area, have had a focus on the following: (a) the impact of trade policy reform on the development of private markets and the private sector in general; (b) macroeconomic policy management, including debt, fiscal, monetary and exchange rate questions; and (c) structural reform and adjustment in developing and transition economies.
• Significant achievements:
  as a Lead Economist for the World Bank, was responsible for the Bank’s economic work first on the Southern Cone countries of Latin America and then on the Middle East; conducted economic policy discussions and provided economic advice at high levels, including at the presidential level, with a number of country governments.

Work Experience

• Visiting Professor of Economics, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) February 2000-present and 1998.
• Economic Advisor, Bank of Indonesia, February 1999-January 2000.
• Director and Chief of Party, Nicaraguan Economic Policy Analysis and Implementation Unit (Núcleo Especial para Análisis e Implementación), an advisory group to the Economic Cabinet in the Nicaraguan Government, March 1996 to September 1997.
• The World Bank (1981-1999).  Last assignment involved service as Economic Advisor in the Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network. Previous position (1990-96) was as the Lead Economist, Middle East Department. Responsibilities included managing the Bank's economic work on the Middle East and supervising adjustment lending operations. Previous assignments have included responsibility for economic work on Latin America, including serving as the Lead Economist for the Southern Cone Department (1987-90).  Entered the World Bank in December 1981, promoted to Senior Economist in 1983, to Principal Economist in 1985 and to Lead Economist in 1986. Took an early retirement in 1999.
• University of Florida, Gainnesville, Florida (1975-82); Director, Center for International Economic and Business Studies (1978-82); Associate Professor, Department of Economics (1975-82); Chairman, Dept. of Economics, 1975-76; Assistant Professor (1969-75).
• George Washington University (1982-83): Professorial Lecturer, Department of Economics.
• Research Institute (IPEA/INPES), Brazilian Planning Secretariat
• Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (Spring Semester 1977). Visting Professor, Nationalekonomiska Institutionen.
• Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1966-69). Visting Professor of Economics, Brazilian School of Public Administration

Publications

• Publications:
  scholarly and professional publications, covering a wide range of topics in international economics and development, include seven books and more than forty articles in refereed journals

Languages

• Fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish

Education

• Ph.D. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts and Harvard Universities, 1969  (also M.A. and M.A.L.D degrees)  
• AB Dickenson College, 1961

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