Felipe Larraín Bascuñán is a Chilean economist, academic and former Minister of Finance under President Sebastián Piñera from 2010 until 2014 and again from 2018 until 2019.

Larraín began his professional academic career at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile by lecturing courses in Macroeconomics, Economic History and Econometrics.

In the 90's Larraín was part of the team of economists from the World Bank who advised the transition of Eastern Europe Countries to a modern market economy.

He also worked as an economic adviser for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, and as a consultant for the United Nations, ECLAC, IBD and the International Monetary Fund.

[citation needed] The Gross Domestic Product expanded at one of the highest rates in the world in years when the European Debt Crisis slowed the economic activity all around the globe.