IMF Conference

Trevor Alleyne is an Assistant Director and Division Chief for Central America in the Western Hemisphere Department at the International Monetary Fund, serving also as mission chief to Costa Rica. Mr. Alleyne has been at the IMF since 1992, with assignments mainly in the African and Western Hemisphere Departments. Prior to joining the Fund, he was a principal analyst at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office from 1986 to 1992. He holds a B.Sc. from the University of the West Indies, a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

Luis Miguel Castilla is the General Manager of the Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness at the Inter-American Development Bank. Previously, he served as Ambassador of Peru to the United States and Minister of Economy and Finance of Peru. He has close to twenty years of experience at multilateral development banks, holding senior positions at the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), among others. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University.

Augusto de la Torre works internationally as a free-lance senior policy consultant, teaches at Columbia University’s School of Public and International Affairs, holds the position of Director of the Economics Research Center at the Universidad de las Américas in Quito, Ecuador, and is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He worked for the World Bank occupying various senior roles, including as Chief Economist for Latin America. Prior to that, he served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Ecuador (1993-1996) and as an economist for the IMF (1986-1992). He has published extensively on a broad range of financial, macroeconomic, and economic development topics. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Notre Dame and holds a Licenciatura in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Ecuador.

Gabriela Andrade is a Financial Markets Lead Specialist at the Connectivity, Markets and Finance Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where she is working in topics related to Fintech, digital currencies, financial inclusion, gender issues in the financial sector and the use of guarantees to scale up private financing for development. Ms. Andrade joined the IDB in 2006 and has had different positions, including coordinator of concessional finance, economic advisor to the Vice-President for Countries, and country economist. Ms. Andrade holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics and International Development from McGill University.

Ana Margoth Arévalo is the Executive Secretary of the Central American Council of Superintendents of Banks, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions since August 2011. She previously served as advisor to the Superintendency of the Financial System of El Salvador. She has a M.A. in economic development and a Ph.D. in economics with a specialty in international economics and econometrics from Vanderbilt University.

Stephane Hallegatte is the lead economist with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) at the World Bank. He was a lead author of the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is the author of dozens of articles published in international journals in multiple disciplines and of several books. He also led several World Bank reports including Shock Waves in 2015, and Unbreakable in 2016. He was the team leader for the World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan, a large internal coordination exercise to determine and explain how the Group will support countries in their implementation of the Paris Agreement. In 2018, he received the Burtoni award for his work on the link between climate change adaptation and poverty reduction. He holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and a Ph.D. in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

Ovidio Reyesis the President of the Central Bank since January 2014. Previously he was General Manager of the Central Bank (2012-13) and, before that, Chief Economist of the Ministry of Finance (2004-2012). He holds a degree in Economics (1989) from the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua and master degrees in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Pennsylvania State University.