Rodrigo Vergara has been the governor of the Central Bank of Chile since December 2011 and was appointed as a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Chile in December 2009 for a ten-year term. Before his position at the Central Bank, he was a professor of economics at the Catholic University of Chile, worked as an economic consultant, and sat on the board of several companies. In 1995, Vergara became the coordinator of the Macroeconomics Department at the Center for Public Studies, an independent Chilean think tank. Previously, he worked at the Central Bank of Chile from 1985 to 1995, rising to the position of chief economist in 1992. Throughout his career, Vergara has been an economic advisor to the central banks and governments of several countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, and has been an external consultant for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations. He graduated with a degree in economics from the Universidad Católica de Chile and holds a PhD. in economics from Harvard University.