About me
2018 -
Senior Strategy Officer
International Finance Corporation - Washington, DC
Latin America and the Caribbean Region
• Oversees a team that monitors the economic and political situation in LAC countries
• Task Team Leader (TTL) for Peru Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) and team member covering manufacturing for Honduras CPSD
• Co-leads Systematic Country Diagnostics (Mexico, Guyana, El Salvador) and Country Partnership Frameworks (Mexico, Argentina, Dominican Republic) in close coordination with World Bank counterparts
• Coordinates the production of country context and development challenges sections of IFC strategies in LAC
• Provides macroeconomic sections for project documents and advises teams on issues of strategic fit
• Provides input and feedback to the Independent Evaluation Group on relevant evaluation notes and reports
2015 - 2018
Senior Results Management Specialist
Asian Development Bank - Manila
Private Sector Operations Department
• Headed Development Effectiveness Unit
• Managed ADB’s Corporate Results Framework for Private Sector Operations
• Led the implementation of a US$1.2m Technical Assistance Facility to support research into development effectiveness issues
• Prepared economic cost-benefit analyses for lending and equity projects
• Prepared economics and results section for project completion reports
• Served as PSOD focal point for ADB’s Scorecard on structure, indicator definitions and data`
• Authored PSOD’s Development Effectiveness Report for Private Sector Operations (2015, 2016, 2017)
• Represented ADB and PSOD in various working groups of International Finance Institutions including Value for Money, Mobilization, Additionality and Managing for Development Results
2010 - 2015
Results Measurement Specialist
International Finance Corporation - Washington, DC
Global Economics and Strategy Department
• Oversaw the operation and continuous improvement of IFC’s Development Outcome Tracking System (DOTS) including indicator definitions and the introduction of analytics, reporting and data visualization tools
• Led the IFC Development Goals initiative; developed and implemented methodologies for development outcome targets for IFC’s operational areas
• Developed evidence-based outcome metrics for all IFC sectors including new IFC business areas such as off-grid energy, data centers, financial infrastructure, or medical device manufacturing
• Co-led the design of the WBG Corporate Score Card that expresses strategic priorities as performance-based indicators for development results in line with the emerging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Analyzed IFC’s development data and produced complex reports for internal and external stakeholders
• Initiated and led an indicator harmonization initiative with other International Finance Institution
2006 - 2010
Infrastructure Specialist
World Bank - Washington, DC
Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid
• Built and managed a monitoring and evaluation team to support management and donors
• Developed an evaluation plan including 6 rigorous impact evaluation studies (total budget US$1.1m)
• Co-authored a book and authored an IDA 15 Mid-Term Review Paper on the effectiveness of OBA
• Authored project assessments, lessons learned documents, thematic reviews and Project Completion Reports
• Developed a methodology for financial and economic cost-benefit-analysis and oversaw its application
• Developed and oversaw the implementation of six investment projects in infrastructure and social sectors.
Work experience
Other work experience
• German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development – Cooperation with the Private Sector Division, Fellow – Bonn, Germany
• IPC GmbH / Banco Los Andes ProCredit, Consultant – Santa Cruz, Bolivia
• Bankakademie International, Intern – Frankfurt, Germany
• Dresdner Bank Luxembourg S.A. (Risk Management Department), Intern – Luxembourg
• Asociación de Scouts de Bolivia, Civilian Service – Cochabamba, Bolivia
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