WASHINGTON, CMC – The World Financial institution Group Monday introduced the appointment of Dr. Susana Cordeiro Guerra as Vice President for the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) area.
It mentioned that on this position, she’s going to lead the financial institution’s engagement with 31 international locations throughout the area and oversee a portfolio of US$41.5 billion in ongoing operations. She can be based mostly on the World Financial institution’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The Washington-based monetary establishment mentioned that Cordeiro Guerra, the primary Latin American girl to carry this place, brings deep management expertise in improvement effectiveness, institutional strengthening, and progressive finance. It acknowledged that she’s going to advance the financial institution’s agenda to ship job-driven improvement, measurable outcomes, and stronger public–personal collaboration throughout LAC.
“As I start this position, my precedence is to assist Latin America and the Caribbean in creating high quality jobs which can be the inspiration of inclusive progress and poverty discount,” mentioned Cordeiro Guerra.
“Jobs not solely present revenue, they carry dignity, strengthen communities, and increase alternative. By working with governments, the personal sector, and native companions, we are able to create the circumstances for funding and innovation that translate into extra resilient economies and extra affluent societies.”
Earlier than this appointment, Cordeiro Guerra held senior management positions on the Inter-American Improvement Financial institution (IADB), the place she led technique on fiscal and financial applications, superior data-driven decision-making, and promoted monetary innovation. Between 2019 and 2021, she led Brazil’s Nationwide Statistics Workplace (IBGE), overseeing a employees of 12,000 and spearheading the modernization of the nation’s official statistics and nationwide inhabitants census.
Earlier in her profession, she labored on the World Financial institution Group throughout a number of departments and areas on decentralization and subnational improvement.
She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise (MIT), a Grasp’s in Public Administration and Worldwide Improvement from the Harvard Kennedy College, and a Bachelor’s diploma in Social Research from Harvard School.
Her publications span improvements by front-line managers within the public sector, larger training, and labor market outcomes, in addition to decentralization and regional disparities.
She succeeds Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, who has been appointed Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific.
