Rosanna Costa

Costa in 2017

Rosanna Maria Assunta Costa Costa (Vina del Mar, 6 December 1957) is a Chilean economist, academic and investigative reporter. She was the director of Presupuestos during the government of president Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014).

Professional career

She moved to the capital when she was young. She studied at the Saint Gabriel School and then commercial engineering with a focus on economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) following in the footsteps of her father, Horacio, who also studied for the same career before working at the state petroleum company Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (Enap). Among her generation colleagues were Felipe Larrain and Francisco Pérez Mackenna.

Her spent her first years as a professional at the PUC, where she focused on teaching and research activities.

In 1984 she returns to work at the Central Bank of Chile (Banco Central de Chile) in the National Accounts Department. Afterwards she moved to Estudios, where she met economists Juan Andrés Fontaine and Francisco Rosende. One of her tasks in the company was to coordinate with the International Monetary Fund that the limits imposed are respected during the time Chile has an agreement with the organisation. She also led the monetary program team. She remained with the company until 1992, even after the end of Augusto Pinochet's government (1973-1990).

Costa then started working at the neoliberal Liberty and Development Institute (Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo) think-thank, focusing on investigation in the macroeconomic, fiscal, judicial and labor fields. She was a member of the Pension Reform Commission and the Equity Commission, both formed by president Michelle Bachelet.