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Spanish economist with a career focused on public finance, financial regulation, and economic policy. He currently serves as Alternate Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Executive Director at the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC).
Before joining the IDB Group, he served as Chairman of FROB and its Governing Committee, where he was responsible for Spain’s executive bank resolution functions. He also represented Spain on the Single Resolution Board (SRB) and in other international committees and bodies dealing with the resolution of financial institutions.
Previously, he served as Director General of the Treasury and Financial Policy, responsible for regulating Spain’s banking sector, capital markets and payment systems; managing the Treasury's funding programme and cash position; promoting Spanish sovereign debt domestically and in roadshows abroad; and contributing to the prevention of money laundering and terrorism financing.
He holds a degree in Economics from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and is a member of Spain’s Senior Corps of State Economists and Trade Experts. Earlier in his career, he held various senior positions within Spain’s economic administration, including Head of Funding and Debt Management, Head of Strategic Analysis and IMF/G20 Relations, Deputy Head of Competition and Economic Regulation, and Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Spanish Embassy in Morocco. He also spent three years at the European Commission in Brussels, working in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs.
He has served as Chair of Spain’s Permanent Committee for the Prevention of Money Laundering; Chair of the Interministerial Working Group on Green Bonds and Sustainable Finance; and Chair of the Financial Intelligence Committee. He has also been a member of the Editorial Board of the ICE Economic Journal; the Technical Committee of the Spanish Macroprudential Authority (AMCESFI); the Board of Directors of ENISA; the EU Financial Services Committee; the OECD Committee on Financial Markets; and the G20 Working Group on the International Financial Architecture.
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