Manuel Amador joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis as a monetary advisor in 2013. He has also been an assistant professor of economics in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, at Harvard University and at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He received his B.S. in economics from Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; his P.I.M.A. degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.