Sanctions Officer

Juan G. Ronderos has served as the Sanctions Officer for the Inter-American Development Bank Group since October 2010. He is the first decision maker of the IDB Group’s two-tier Sanctions System. According to the IDB Group’s Sanctions Procedures, he determines whether corporations and/or individuals have engaged in a prohibited practice and whether it warrants a sanction. 

Before joining the IDB Group, Mr. Ronderos was the Regional Team Leader for the Latin America and the Caribbean investigative team at the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency (INT), which he joined in 2003. Mr. Ronderos was also part of INT’s South Asia investigative team, conducting investigations in India, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.

Before joining the Multilateral Development Banks, Mr. Ronderos worked as director for KPMG Forensics in Canada and the United States.

Mr. Ronderos’ career started in the early nineties in Colombia, where he held different law enforcement posts, ranging from front-line investigations to commanding a special anti-money laundering investigative task force. Later, Mr. Ronderos worked in academia as Assistant Director for the Nathanson Center for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption (today called the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security) at Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada (Osgoode Hall). Mr. Ronderos has a law degree from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, a Specialization in Taxation from the same university, and an LL.M from Osgoode Hall.