Forty-first session of ECLAC

He holds a PhD (candidate) in Economics and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Kansas, United States, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of the Republic of Uruguay.

He has had an extensive professional career at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). From 2007 to 2020, he served as Executive Director for Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay and of the IDB’s private sector arm, the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC/IDB Invest). At the World Bank, he served as Senior Advisor to the Executive Director for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay; Senior Economist in the Development Economics Department (DEC); Country Economist for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary; and Economist for Bolivia and the Dominican Republic.

He has also held academic and research positions at the University of the Republic of Uruguay and CINVE. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations, ALIDE, the IDB and ECLAC in the areas of strategies, financing and capitalization of Multilateral Development Banks. At the IDB and IIC, he served as Dean of the IDB Board of Executive Directors from 2017 to 2018 and of the IIC Board from 2017 to 2020, and chaired several internal committees.