Francisco Rodríguez (economist)

Francisco R. Rodríguez is an economist from Venezuela. He is the Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies and a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

From 2000 to 2004, he served as the head of the economic and financial advisory of the Venezuelan National Assembly (Spanish: Oficina de Asesoría Económica y Financiera de Asamblea Nacional). Rodríguez led the research team of the United Nations' Human Development Report Office from 2008 to 2011. He was chief economist at Torino Economics, the economic analysis branch of New York-based Torino Capital, between 2016 and 2019, and served as policy advisor for presidential candidate Henri Falcón in 2018.