Leonardo Basso

Dr. Basso is Full Professor of Industrial Engineering at the Universidad de Chile. He received his Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering (1999) and his Master degree in Transportation Engineering (2001) from Universidad de Chile. He obtained his PhD from the Sauder School of Business, The University of British Columbia, Canada (2006). Basso's areas of research are transport economics -with particular interests on air and urban transport-, urban economics, and industrial economics and antitrust. During the Covid-19 pandemic he worked on several initiatives to help overcome the crisis. He is the Director of the ANID Center of Excellence Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI), a member of the University Senate for the period 2022-2026 and member of Academia Chilena de Ciencias (the Chilean National Academy of Sciences). Also he is co-editor in chief of Economics of Transportation, the oficial journal of the International Transport economics Association.