RGVEPC: Economic Perspectives for Texas
Mixer: 5:30 - 6:00 pm
Dinner/Presentation: 6:00 - 7:00 pm
RSVPs preferred by Friday, June 10, noon.
Luis Torres joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in March 2022 as a senior business economist. Based out of the San Antonio Branch, Torres performs research and analysis on issues impacting central and south Texas. He has more than 15 years of central banking experience and more than 20 years as an applied economic researcher.
Luis Torres received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico. He received a master’s in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso, where his dissertation received honors. He later earned a scholarship to participate in the American Economic Association Ph.D. Summer Minority Program. His Ph.D. is from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he specialized in international economics and econometrics. During his doctoral studies, he worked at the El Paso Branch of the Dallas Federal Reserve. From 1995 to 2012, he was with Banco de Mexico in the research department and the institutional liaison department. Prior to joining the Fed, he served as a research economist at the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University studying regional economies, developing economic indicators and researching real estate markets.
Dr. Torres has taught classes and seminars at U.S. and Mexican universities, as well as in national and international forums. He has published various articles in academic and nonacademic publications about regional economies, international economics, real estate, trade and applied econometrics.
