About me
Jorge Valverde Carbonell is a Chilean economist. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chile and is currently a doctoral candidate in Economics and Innovation at the University of Maastricht (UNU-MERIT) – Netherlands. His research topics include economic complexity, international trade in global value chains, energy transition, and mineral economics. Additionally, he has written about tax regimes in copper mining and advised members of the Chilean parliament on the latest mining royalty reform in Chile.
Jorge has more than ten years of work experience in public service and consulting. Between 2012 and 2018, he served as an economic analyst for the Chilean Copper Commission and, later, as senior advisor, coordinator, and chief of staff of the Chilean Ministry of Finance. From 2018 to date, he has combined his doctoral studies with consulting for international organizations and multinational companies, advising the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Organization for Cooperation, Development (OECD) and CODELCO, among others.
His more recent works are focused on critical minerals. In this capacity, he has developed studies for the IDB and ECLAC on the economic effects of the energy transition for Latin American countries. On the other hand, he is carrying out a study on lithium and green hydrogen industries in Chile for the think tank Espacio Público and another research on critical minerals and regional opportunities in Latin America for the UNCTAD.
