The Inter-American Development Bank is an international development finance institution headquartered in Washington,D.C.,United States of America,and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 1959,the IDB supports Latin American and Caribbean economic development,social development and regional integration by lending to governments and government agencies,including State corporations.
Enrique Valentín Iglesias García is a Spanish-born Uruguayan economist. He served as the first president of the Central Bank of Uruguay from 1967 to 1969. He has also served as Inter-American Development Bank,an international institution dedicated to furthering economic development in the Western Hemisphere through investment and policy formulation. He was appointed as Special Adviser for Venezuela to Federica Mogherini,the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission,on 28 May 2019.
Luis Alberto Moreno Mejía is a Colombian businessman and former diplomat who served as President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) from 2005 to 2020. He was also Colombia's Ambassador to the United States under President Andrés Pastrana Arango from 1998 to 2005,and is the former President of the Instituto de Fomento Industrial. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at the World Economic Forum (WEF) since 2011.
Alicia Isabel Adriana Bárcena Ibarra is a Mexican biologist currently serving as her country's Secretary of Foreign Affairs. She previously served as the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from July 2008 to March 2022.
AndréMedici is a Brazilian health economist with a background in health strategy,public and private health financing in Latin America and the Caribbean,social security and pensions,economic reform,gender health issues,environmental protection,and globalization. He is currently a Senior Health Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank,in Washington,DC.
Antonio Ortiz Mena was a Mexican economist who served as President of the Inter-American Development Bank (1971–1988) and as Mexico's Secretary of Finance during the administrations of Adolfo López Mateos and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1958–1970).
Francisco Mayorga is a Nicaraguan economist and writer who specializes in international finance and economic development. For twenty years he taught managerial economics and corporate finance at INCAE,the leading Latin American graduate business school. In the eighties he served for five years in the board of directors of the Central American Bank (CABEI),the largest financial institution of the region. In the eighties,Mayorga also worked for the cause of peace in Central America,acting as Executive Secretary of the International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development.
Laura Chinchilla Miranda is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's Minister of Justice. She was the governing PLN candidate for president in the 2010 general election,where she won with 46.76% of the vote on 7 February. She was the eighth woman president of a Latin American country and the first and so far only woman to become President of Costa Rica. She was sworn in as President of Costa Rica on 8 May 2010.
Rogelio Frigerio is an Argentine economist and politician. Since 2023,he has been Governor of Entre Ríos Province.
Ilan Goldfajn is a Brazilian economist,former governor of the Central Bank of Brazil and former director of the International Monetary Fund's Western Hemisphere Department. In December 2022,he became president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Mauricio Pozo Crespo is an Ecuadorian politician,banker and economist from Quito,Ecuador. Since 2020,he has been Minister of Economy and Finance.
Mario Marcel Cullell is a Chilean economist who has been serving as Chile Minister of Finance since 11 March 2022. He previously served as Governor of the Central Bank of Chile. He was named Governor in December 2016 and member of the Bank's Board from October 2015. He has been a close collaborator to the governments of the centre-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy (1990–2010),and for six years held the position of Budget Director,where he played a key role in the design of the structural surplus rule.
Iván Duque Márquez is a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the president of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. He was elected as the candidate from the Democratic Centre Party in the 2018 Colombian presidential election. Backed by his mentor,former president and powerful senator Álvaro Uribe,he was elected despite having been relatively unknown a year before the election. He ran on a platform that included opposing Juan Manuel Santos' peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla group. After Duque's term came to an end,he was succeeded by Gustavo Petro on 7 August 2022,after Petro won the runoff round in the 2022 Colombian presidential election.
Troika of tyranny is a description of the nations of Cuba,Nicaragua and Venezuela used by United States National Security Advisor John R. Bolton in outlining United States foreign policy towards those nations. Bolton has alternately described the three countries as the "triangle of terror" and the "three stooges of socialism",stating that the three are "the cause of immense human suffering,the impetus of enormous regional instability,and the genesis of a sordid cradle of communism in the western hemisphere".
Kimberly Breier is an American diplomat,who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from October 15,2018 until her resignation in August 2019.
Hector Elias Morales is an American diplomat who served as the 18th United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States.
Daniele Franco is an Italian economist,central banker and civil servant who served as Minister of Economy and Finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mario Draghi from 2021 to 2022. From 2020 until 2021,he served as director-general of the Bank of Italy.
Miguel Braun Cortés is an Argentine economist and policymaker who served was Secretary of Commerce of the Ministry of Production (2015–2018) and Secretary of Economic Policy of the Ministry of Finance (2018–2019) of the Argentine Republic.
Jordan Schwartz is a senior executive in the field of multilateral financing for emerging economies. After 25 years at the World Bank,he is currently the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Bank of Development (IDB) where he chairs the operations and policy committee,overseeing the quality functions,strategy,and risk management for all IDB operations.
Anabel González is an economic development expert,with over 30 years of experience in trade,investment,competitiveness,and the role of the private sector. She is currently Vice President for Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
