The IDB announced the election of 13 members of its Board of Executive Directors to serve during the period July 1, 1999, to June 30, 2002. With the exception of the U.S. executive director, who is appointed, the executive directors were elected by representatives of the IDB's 45 member countries.

The executive directors are responsible for the conduct of the operations of the Bank, exercising powers delegated to them by the institution's Board of Governors.

The new members are, for Canada, Guy A. Lavigueur; for Argentina and Haiti, Humberto Petrei; for Brazil and Suriname, Daniel Andrade Ribeiro de Oliveira; for Dominican Republic and Mexico, Moisés A. Pineda; for Panama and Venezuela, Adina Mercedes Bastidas Castillo; for Colombia and Peru, Jorge F. Baca Campodónico; for Chile and Ecuador, Mario Marcel; for Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, Raúl Boada; for Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, Edgard A. Guerra; for The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, George L. Reid; for Belgium, Germany, Israel, Italy, Switzerland and The Netherlands, Bruno Mangiatordi; for Croatia, Japan, Portugal, Slovenia and the United Kingdom, Toru Kodaki; for Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Spain and Sweden, Alvaro Rengifo Abbad; and for the United States, Lawrence Harrington.

Appointments

Christophe Guillemin was named chief of the Cofinancing Division in the IDB's Regional Operations Department 1. He was most recently director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Paris, France.

Asunción Aguilá, chief of the Environment and Natural Resources Management Division in Regional Operations Department 3, was named to the same post in Regional Operations Department 1. She succeeded Walter Ross, who is retiring after a long career at the Bank.

Alvaro Llosa, chief of Country Division 2 in Regional Operations Department 1, was named to fill Aguilá's former post in Regional Operations 3.

Luisa Rains, who was previously chief of the Fiscal Division in the Integration and Regional Programs Department, was named chief of Country Division 2 in Regional Operations Department 1.

Peter Kalil, formerly chief of the Technical Advisory and Support Services Office in the Integration and Regional Programs Department, was named to succeed Rains.

Charles Greenwood, the IDB's representative in Guyana, was named advisor to the Manager of the Human Resources and Administrative Services Department at the Bank's headquarters. Robert Kestell, the Bank's representative in Jamaica, succeeded Greenwood in Guyana.

Robert Bellefeuille, the IDB's representative in Ecuador, was appointed to the same post in Jamaica. Dora Currea, an advisor in the Office of the Executive Vice President, succeeded Bellefeuille in Ecuador.