Executive directors and alternate executive directors

Executive Directors and Alternate Executive Directors

The Board of Executive Directors is responsible for the conduct of the operations of the Bank and for this purpose may exercise all the powers delegated by the Board of Governors.

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Chair	Executive Director	Alternate Executive Director	Counselors	Votes	Voting Power(%)
Argentina and Haiti	Federico Ignacio Poli (Argentina)	Lucio Castro Argentina	Alfred Fils Metellus (Haiti) Nicolas Camauer (Argentina) Nicolas Renato Sebastian Raigorodsky (Argentina)	1,674,226	11.81%
Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Spain and Sweden	Alicia Montalvo Santamaría (Spain)	Patrick Jean Hervé France	Harald Tollan (Norway) Maj Hessel (Denmark) Per Arne Backman (Sweden)	687,703	4.851%
Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago	Selwin Charles Hart (Barbados)		Ayleen Valerie Alleyne-Ovid (Trinidad and Tobago) Roger Craig S R Turnquest (Bahamas) Sarah Anne Yearwood (Barbados) Sheranne Ayana Isaacs (Guyana)	215,269	1.518%
Belgium, China, Germany, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands and Switzerland	Stefania Antonella Bazzoni (Italy)	Ute Heinbuch Germany	Ayelet Perlstein (Israel) Bjorn Olaf Kuil (Netherlands) Mattia Stefano Celio (Switzerland) Michael Anthony C. Boseret (Belgium)	712,259	5.024%
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua	José Mauricio Silva (El Salvador)	Francisco José Mayorga Balladares Nicaragua	Carlos De Paco (Costa Rica) Elvira Mendez (Belize) Mario Rodolfo Marroquín Rivera (Guatemala)	357,450	2.521%
Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay	Marko Marcelo Machicao Bankovic (Bolivia)	Marcelo Bisogno Uruguay	Germán Hugo Rojas Irigoyen (Paraguay) Miguel Rodriguez Tejerina (Bolivia) Pablo Fleiss (Uruguay)	366,858	2.588%
Brazil and Suriname	José Guilherme Almeida dos Reis (Brazil)	Sergio Savino Portugal Brazil	André Luiz Soares De Oliveira (Brazil) Artur Cardoso de Lacerda (Brazil) Jade Charity May-Ling Tjon (Suriname)	1,622,236	11.443%
Canada	Guillermo Enrique Rishchynski (Canada)	Eric Daniel Madueño Canada	Brett Alexander Maitland (Canada) Sabrina Ramzi (Canada)	567,174	4.001%
Chile and Ecuador	Alex Foxley (Chile)	Rosa Matilde Guerrero Murgueytio Ecuador	Bernardo Acosta Varea (Ecuador) Maria Isabel Larenas Gonzalez (Chile)	528,355	3.727%
Colombia and Peru	Gerardo M. Corrochano (Peru)	Sergio Díaz Granados Colombia	Belisa Anamaria de las Casas (Peru) Luis Martin Uribe Velez (Colombia) Miguel Ortega Rodriguez (Colombia)	657,710	4.639%
Croatia, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Slovenia and United Kingdom	Toshiyuki Yasui (Japan)	Malcolm Geere United Kingdom	Ana Margarida Carneiro Torres Ferreira (Portugal) Jadranka Hajdinjak (Croatia) Takuro Itoigawa (Japan) Tatsuya Sugiura (Japan)	865,302	6.104%
Dominican Republic and Mexico	Juan Bosco Martí Ascencio (Mexico)	Carlos Augusto Pared Vidal Dominican Republic	Alma Lucía Romero Barrutieta (Mexico) José Ramón Lorenzo Domínguez (Mexico) Maria Isabel Lozano Santin (Mexico)	1,121,196	7.909%
Panama and Venezuela	Armando José León Rojas (Venezuela)	Fernando Ernesto de León de Alba Panama	Maruquel Díaz (Panama) Pablo José Romero Castillo (Venezuela) Victor José Blanco Cova (Venezuela)	547,051	3.859%
United States of America		Eliot Pedrosa United States of America	Abigail Mary Demopulos (United States of America) Gabriela Stocks (United States of America) James Andrew Catto (United States of America)	4,253,799	30.006%