Forty-first session of ECLAC

Peter A. Prazmowski is the current Executive Director of the National Competitiveness Council (CNC), appointed by Decree No. 531-20, issued on October 1, 2020, by President Luis Abinader.

In this role, he leads the coordination of public-private policies and strategies aimed at strengthening national competitiveness, promoting initiatives that foster greater efficiency, productivity and sustainable development across the various sectors of the Dominican economy. He also coordinates strategic institutional transformation and state modernization projects that are key to the country’s economic growth.

He also serves as Executive Director of the Executive Commission of the Zero Bureaucracy Program and of Meta RD 2036, two high-impact initiatives aimed at improving public services, strengthening competitiveness and raising citizens’ quality of life.

Professionally, he has served as an advisor to the Group for National Productivity and Competitiveness of the Dominican Republic and to Grupo Empresarial E. León Jimenes. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Statistics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Chevening master’s degree in Economics and Econometrics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Economics from Kingston University.

His academic work includes scholarly publications in the fields of public economics, macroeconomics, monetary theory and economic development, with a particular focus on the Dominican Republic. He is the author and co-author of the books Estabilización; Essays in Macroeconomics for the Dominican Republic and the Development World, with José Sánchez-Fung and Amelia Santos Paulino; and Gazebo, por un sueño país, co-authored with Xavier Sala-i-Martin and Enrique Darwin Caraballo.