Guillermo Paraje, Ph.D.

Dr. Guillermo Paraje is a Professor of economics at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Business School in Chile. He specializes in health economics topics, such as health equity, health systems, and non-communicable diseases. Relating to non-communicable diseases, he has developed policy-oriented research to implement effective tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverage control policies in Latin American countries. Previously, he was a Consultant for the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Program, UNICEF, other organizations. He was also a member of a Presidential Commission to Reform Health Insurance in Chile.

Guillermo received his bachelor’s in economics from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina, an MPhil (Master of Philosophy), and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.