Julio Velarde Flores has been Chairman of the Board of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru since October 2006. In October 2021 it was ratified to continue presiding over the BCRP Board for a fourth consecutive term, until 2026.

He holds a master’s and doctoral studies in Economics from Brown University, United States; advanced studies in Economics from the Institute of World Economics in Kiel, Germany, and completed his undergraduate studies in Economics at the Universidad del Pacífico.

He was president of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four Countries for International Monetary Affairs and Development (G24) in the period 2018/2019 and executive president of the Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR) from 2004 to October 2006. He also held the positions of Director of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, from 1990 to 1992 and from 2001 to 2003, and dean of the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad del Pacífico, 2003.

He has received numerous international awards for his management at the head of the BCRP. Among the various recognitions he has received are that of the international magazine The Banker, of the editorial group Financial Times, which distinguished him as Central Banker of the Americas of the Year 2020 and as Central Banker of the Year globally in 2015. In 2021 he also received the highest rating as a central banker according to Global Finance magazine.

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