The 62-year-old has reached the age for mandatory retirement from the bank.
"My last day will be March 31," he says.
He will turn his attention to full-time teaching at John Hopkins University, where he has run a graduate course for the past 20 years. "One of the ideas is to start a centre for economics and finance for emerging markets with Latin America being a centrepiece."
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