Jaime Vallecilla G.

Jaime is an economist from Universidad del Valle, he has a specialization in "Topics in Long-Run Economics", from the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph (Ontario-Canada). He has extensive experience in issues related to regional and urban economic growth, the input-output model, the coffee economy, and economic measurement within the framework of the national accounts system.

He has worked as a researcher at the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), a research professor at the Javeriana University in Bogotá and a researcher at CEGA in the same city; He is a researcher at the Autonomous University of Manizales (UAM) and at CRECE in the city of Manizales. He is editor of the Regional Economic Observatory (OER) sponsored by CRECE and UAM. He was editor of the magazine RegionEs of CRECE, INER of the University of Antioquia and Observatory of the Colombian Caribbean (Cartagena). Similarly, he has been a consultant for Colombia at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) in Brasilia and at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago.