Biography
Antonio Vives
Manager a.i., Sustainable Development Department
Antonio Vives, a Spanish citizen, is Manager, a.i. of the Sustainable Development Department. The Department is the technical arm of the Bank, in charge of policies, strategies, best practices, dissemination of experiences, quality enhancement and relations with international institutions.
He has been with the Inter-American Development Bank in various capacities for over 26 years, as investment officer for private sector operations, operations officer, Operations Division Chief for several countries, Chief the Advisory Office of the Operations Department, Chief of the Infrastructure and Financial Markets Division and is currently also in charge of the Private Enterprise and Financial Markets Subdepartment of the Sustainable Development Department (Infrastructure, Financial Markets, Environment and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises). He is also Vice-Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Pension Fund of the Bank.
Before joining the Bank, Mr. Vives was a professor at Simon Bolivar University and IESA Graduate School of Management in Venezuela, and has taught at Carnegie Mellon, George Washington and Virginia Tech universities in the United States.
Mr. Vives has authored a textbook on corporate financial evaluation and published numerous articles on financial management and private infrastructure. Most recent publications are Private Infrastructure: Ten Commandments for Sustainability, Pension Funds in Infrastructure Project Finance: Regulations and Instrument Design, Private Infrastructure Investment at the Subnational Level: Challenges in Emerging Economies, all published in The Journal of Project Finance, and "Financial Intermediation and Policy Based Lending: Policy Recommendation for Latin America and the Caribbean". Has edited three volumes of the Proceedings of the Inter-American Conferences on Corporate Social Responsibility and written numerous articles, the most recent ones being "The Role of Multilateral Development Institutions in Fostering Corporate Social Responsibility", published in Development and "Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America", published in the Journal of Corporate Citizenship. He is currently writing a book on Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Markets.
He specializes in corporate social responsibility, infrastructure finance, financial market development and micro and SME finance in emerging economies. He is a frequent lecturer in international conferences.
Mr. Vives holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Central de Venezuela, a master's degree in Industrial Administration, and a doctorate in Finance (Corporate Finance and Capital Markets), both from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
