Lazard Ltd : Andres Velasco to Serve as Senior Advisor to Lazard
02/23/2012 | 08:35am
Lazard Ltd (NYSE: LAZ) announced today that Andrés Velasco, former
Finance Minister of Chile and founding partner of SCL Partners, will
serve as a Senior Advisor to the firm, globally, effective immediately.
Mr. Velasco served as Finance Minister of Chile for four years through
March of 2010. He has also been a consultant to the International
Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and
the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Since 2000,
Mr. Velasco has been a Professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy
School of Government and is currently a Visiting Professor at Columbia
University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Mr. Velasco holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and was
a Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Economy at Harvard University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
About Lazard
Lazard, one of the world's preeminent financial advisory and asset
management firms, operates from 42 cities across 27 countries in North
America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Central and South America. With
origins dating back to 1848, the firm provides advice on mergers and
acquisitions, strategic matters, restructuring and capital structure,
capital raising and corporate finance, as well as asset management
services to corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and
individuals. For more information on Lazard, please visit www.lazard.com.
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Lazard
Monica Orbe, +1-212-632-6968
monica.orbe@lazard.com
or
Richard
Creswell, +44-207-187-2305
richard.creswell@lazard.com
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