Forty-first session of ECLAC

Luis Madera Sued was born on October 22, 1981, in Santiago, Dominican Republic. He holds a degree in Business Administration, a master’s degree in Economics Applied to Public Policy and Development, and a specialization in Statistical Analysis and Demographic Analysis. He has completed courses and diploma programs on sustainable development and on the production and analysis of economic and social statistics.

He served as Director of Economic Statistics at the National Statistics Office (ONE), where he coordinated the implementation of the Business Directory, the National Survey of Economic Activity, the Housing Construction Cost Index, the Producer Price Index and the Retail Price Index. He took an active part in the organization and conduct of the IX National Population and Housing Census 2010. He led an inter-institutional team in the definition and implementation of the New Methodology for Measuring Monetary Poverty. He built and led the ONE team that provided the data for the 2011 and 2013 progress reports on the Millennium Development Goals, and for the final report in 2015.

He is a national expert in sustainable development. In 2017 and 2018, he was Technical Coordinator of the High-Level Inter-Institutional Commission for Sustainable Development (SDG Commission). He has represented the country at the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and at the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development of ECLAC.

He coordinated the Prosperity Subcommission within the SDG Commission, where he systematized the design of the Sustainable Production and Consumption Roadmap, the prioritization of the National SDG Targets and the conduct of the First National Survey on Industrial Development and Business Sustainability (ENDIS).

As an international consultant, he has been responsible for the design and implementation of the Regional MSME Information System of the SICA countries; the international trade statistics module of the same system; the proposal to redesign the Business and Establishment Directory of Panama’s INEC; and the guidelines for including migration in SDG planning and management in the countries of the Mesoamerican region.

He has taught Fundamentals of Economics and Economic Development in the Economics program at Universidad Católica Santo Domingo (UCSD). He served as Director of Economic Analysis at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs, and as Director General of Economic and Social Development at the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development (MEPyD).

In July 2022, he was appointed Vice Minister of Planning and Public Investment at MEPyD and, in late July 2024, Vice Minister for Government Coordination and Monitoring at the Ministry of the Presidency (MINPRE).