Experience

IDB Lab

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Strategy Officer

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  / Leads IDB Lab’s strategy to boost poverty-reducing innovation across Latin America and the Carubbean (LAC) and foster the development of LAC's productive structure as a key driver to open up new channels of growth, social inclusion and sustainability, as a central part of the work of the Inter-American Development Bank./ Coordinate development strategies to be implemented in the 26 regional countries and across IDB Lab's thematic priorities, including financial inclusion, climate, agriculture, health and education, and new engines of productivity growth and social inclusion/ Led the formulation of IDB Lab's renewed value proposition and business model evolution, as well as future more sustainable funding model Show less

• Chief Investment Officer

  • Apr 2020 - Sep 2021

  / Lead the Investment Unit at IDB Lab, the innovation lab of Inter-American Development Group (IDB), a highly dynamic and agile investment team, pursuing the objective of investing in highly impactful early stage companies and funds and finance/mobilize major development initiatives to address key development issues, particularly focusing on social inclusion and productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean by leveraging the power of innovation.

• Senior Investment Officer

  • Sep 2016 - Apr 2020

  // Led the origination, appraisal, due diligence and implementation of development projects and investments (equities, loans, funds, mezzanine, hybrids) in the fields of technology, fintech, agtech, IA/Blockchain, and others, across Latin America (Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Central America and others) looking to support development-promoting innovations// Leading rural development projects that leverage technology to support productivity increases copped with sustainable models (agtech, remote sensing imagery), with sucessive papers, direct equity investments and VC funds // Track record of 15+ development projects and investments across Latin America, focused on solving key development issues leveraging innovation towards economic development (and in the design of 5+ IDB sovereign loan operations)// Over 50 venture capital and 100+ startups screened in the business, financial and impact dimensions// Coordinated innovation related initiatives on behalf of the IDB with governments, corporations and the innovation ecosystems (accelerators, startups, investors, etc) across Latin America// Elaborated knowledge products and papers on development effectiveness, socioeconomic impact of innovation, and local economic development Show less



Own consulting practice

• Luanda (Angola), Maputo (Mozambique), Bissau (Guinea Bissau), Mexico City (Mexico), Brazil

• Adviser to governments on economic development

  • Nov 2015 - Sep 2016

  Adviser to several governments on economic development policy, leading development programs with local authorities and teams, particularly on poverty-reducing policies, competitiveness and productivity, microeconomic reform and sector-specific policies, and economic diversification. Projects included launching new set of development policies, designing new framework for social policies, proposing tax and microeconomic policy reform, identifying new drivers for productivity and economic complexity, among others. Show less



McKinsey & Company

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engagement Manager, Economic Development and Public Sector

  • Aug 2013 - Sep 2016

  // Responsible for leading project teams and coordinate McKinsey's work on economic development and public sector, with engagements in Latin America and Africa, with numerous Federal and state-level governments and related executive branches, multilateral and social-sector institutions // Led the elaboration and execution of economic development policies and action plans, particularly on the topics of poverty reduction, productivity growth, microeconomic reform and regulatory enhancement, sectoral competitiveness and innovation finance // Led the economic diversification project with the Ministry of Finance of Angola (McKinsey’s largest public-sector project worldwide) // Conducted studies on poverty dynamics and inequality, inclusive economic growth and tech trends and its impact on different sectors, such as financial services, education, health (MGI) // On leave: May15-Feb16 Show less



The World Bank

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Trade and Competitiveness

  • Nov 2015 - Feb 2016

  / Designed and launched a key research project to understand the dynamics of low firm-level productivity across Latin America entitled ‘Productivity Programmatic Approach’, a collection of 5 research papers in partnership with leading scholars to identify key bottlenecks and guide WB's operations, particularly on spillovers, innovation, management upgrade, and knowledge-intensive services, under the leadership of WB's Trade and Competitiveness Lead economist / Led the impact evaluation on the effects of tax incentives on SME productivity levels and sectorial growth in Latin America / Conducted a study on the quality of regulatory institutions and public spending towards private sector development, led by social scientist Charles Sabel (Columbia University Professor) Show less



Secretaria de Assuntos Estrategicos - Republica Federativa do Brasil

• Brasília, Federal District, Brazil

• Secretary of Strategic Actions and Director of Minister's Cabinet

  • Mar 2015 - Dec 2015

  / Led a non-partisan effort in Brazil's Presidency of Republic to design development policies to promote a new cycle of inclusive growth, focused on microeconomic reform, competitiveness policies, education, institutional reform, and high-impact entrepreneurship / Leading a team of 10 internationally-selected experts, wrote technical proposal of at least twenty public policies and institutional reforms grounded on microeconomic studies, academic literature and public consultations / Designed and led evaluation studies on some of Brazil’s most important existing growth-oriented programs, including Plan for Accelerated Growth (“PAC”) and BNDES’s Program for Sustained Investment (“PSI”) with Institute of Applied Economics (IPEA) / Co-led a regional development strategy for the central region, resulting in the creation of first inter-federative development agency in Brazil, in coordination with six state-level governments / Led a major consultation with most relevant public and private actors to diagnose prevalent regulatory bottlenecks and led the elaboration of package of measures for private sector development and entrepreneurship/venture capital Show less



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Productivity and Competitiveness Researcher

  • Sep 2012 - Aug 2014

  // Research and advice projects at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. // Main research projects include: advice to corporates, international organizations and central and state-level governments on innovation investment, competitiveness and economic diversification. // Bibliographical reference: Enhancing productivity growth in southern Mexico : the cases of Oaxaca and Veracruz Teixeira, Tomás Lopes Cambridge, Mass. : John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2014. // Research and advice projects at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. // Main research projects include: advice to corporates, international organizations and central and state-level governments on innovation investment, competitiveness and economic diversification. // Bibliographical reference: Enhancing productivity growth in southern Mexico : the cases of Oaxaca and Veracruz Teixeira, Tomás Lopes Cambridge, Mass. : John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2014.



United Nations

• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research and Programme Officer - United Nations

  • 2011 - 2012

  // Design of local development projects on productive development, economic diversification and promotion of innovation and private sector investment at UNITAR (U.N. Institute for Training and Research) // Different engagements in Africa (Mozambique, Guinea Bissao, Nigeria, South Sudan, and DRC) and Latin America and the Caribbean. // Elaborated chapter on role of private sector innovation and capital investment on countering climate change, specially in the agricultural sector - Final paper included into the innovation chapter of UN Rio + 20 Conference working paper Show less



Bank of America Merrill Lynch

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Financial Analyst, Global Markets (Emerging Markets)

  • Jul 2007 - Jun 2011

  // Structured financial investments for financial institutions (including venture capital and private equity funds) and corporate clients including debt and hybrid products (hedge, merger and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts), structured secured and unsecured loans, international bond issuance, amongst others // Responsible for product structuring and pricing, valuation and financial modeling, commercial and financial due diligence, credit/equity risk business appraisal, and market execution // Financial modelling and structuring for debt and equity products, from deal appraisal to valuation and term sheet negotiations // Over US$ 500+ million in new investment deals; over USD 1Bi financial portfolio under management Show less