Professor of Practice and Director of the MPA in Global Leadership. Global Senior Research Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy. School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Columbia University. International Advisor, Goldman Sachs.
As Colombia’s minister of finance (2012-2018) was chosen by Euromoney as finance minister of the year in 2015 and Chair of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and the IMF in 2016. Served as minister of mines and energy, director of national planning, minister of economic development, and minister of transport. He has been executive director of Fedesarrollo and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he led the Latin American Initiative. PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
