José Tessada
Director
He has been Director of the School of Management at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile since 2018, where he has also been Associate Professor since 2015 and was Director of Research between 2015 and 2018. He is also an Affiliate Professor of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) and a full member of the Pension System Risk Rating Committee.
Prior to joining the School of Management as an Assistant Professor in 2010, he was a research fellow at The Brookings Institution, a research center in Washington, D.C., USA. United States. He has also been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland in College Park, USA. His academic work has been published in international journals and book chapters.
His main areas of research are household financial behavior and labor economics.
He holds a degree in Business Administration and a Master's degree in Economics, mention in Financial Economics, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.
