José Carlos Valer Dávila

Dr José Carlos Valer Dávila is a Peruvian economist and former banker with cross-sector expertise in fiscal policy, financial regulation, sustainable development, and the application of artificial intelligence to economic policy design and valuation. His current research focuses on two areas: the use of high-dimensional dynamic models and reinforcement learning to assess the private and social value of non-renewable resource extraction projects -recently published in Resources Policy- and the valuation of ethical frameworks drawn from the historical and normative legacy of economic thought, particularly in Spanish America. This research aims to inform contemporary policy debates and support agent-based AI simulations for the sustainable governance of natural resource rents, with applications in energy transition, pension fund design, sovereign wealth funds, and fiscal strategies for infrastructure and subsidy allocation.

He previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Peru’s national development bank and CFO of Banco Santander Perú. He holds a PhD in Development Economics and Natural Resources, an MSc in Financial Regulation and Central Banking (Warwick), and an MBA from the University of Oxford. He is currently a Research Professor at PAD - Universidad de Piura and Global Faculty at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where he lectures on sustainability finance, regulatory strategy, and economic policy in graduate and executive programmes. He also holds advisory roles with governments of resource-rich Global South countries, helping bridge European, UK, and local priorities in sustainability, financial regulation, and ethically grounded public policy.