K. Burke Dillon has been the IDB’s executive vice president since 1998. She came to the Bank from the International Monetary Fund, where she headed the Administration Department. Before that, she directed IMF activities in several Latin American countries and was an IMF representative in Moscow.

In 1979–80, she served on the United States President's Council of Economic Advisers as a senior staff economist. A citizen of the United States, Ms. Dillon has an undergraduate degree in economics from Northwestern University and graduate degrees in economics from the London School of Economics and Yale University.

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