Launch of RED: "Global challenges, regional solutions: Latin America and the Caribbean facing the climate and biodiversity crisis".

Sergio Díaz-Granados has extensive experience in public and private service, both nationally and internationally, with special emphasis on regional development and integration issues. Before assuming the presidency of CAF, he served as Executive Director for Colombia at the Inter-American Development Bank. He previously held the positions of Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia, Vice Minister of Business Development and President of the Boards of Directors of Bancóldex and ProColombia. He also has been a congressman and chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Colombia’s House of Representatives.

Ph.D. in Economics at Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). Master in Economics at the same university and at the Universidad del Cema (Argentina). Degree in Economics from the National University of Córdoba (1997). His research interests are in the areas of labor economics, economic development, family economics, and public policy and program evaluation. Previously, he worked as a research economist at the IERAL of the Mediterranean Foundation (Argentina) and as a professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, the National University of Córdoba and the 21st Century Business University (Argentina). See publications

Ph.D. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (France). Master in Public Policy from the University of Chicago (USA). His research interests are in the areas of labor, education and development economics. Before joining CAF he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. He has been a consultant for international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations and the Population Council. In Mexico, he collaborated with the CIDAC think tank and, in the private sector, with INSAD and Hill and Knowlton. See publications

He received a Phd degree in Economics from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires. He has a master's degree in economics from Harvard University and graduate studies from the Institute for Economic and Social Development (IDES). He was president of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and, previously, dean of the Business School. He was also a visiting professor and researcher at Stanford and Harvard. He is a full member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences of Argentina, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and a researcher at J-PAL-Latin America (Jameel Poverty Action Lab). His works have been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Development Economics, among others. His areas of specialization are Economic Development, Crime Economics and Applied Microeconomics.

He is a forestry engineer, public manager and environmentalist. He began his activities as an activist with the creation of the Ecological Resistance Movement (MORE), a pioneer organization on the subject in Rio de Janeiro and Niterói. He led initiatives in defense of Guanabara Bay and in the campaign that resulted in the creation of the Serra da Tiririca State Park. He was president of the State Forestry Institute and of the State Foundation for Environmental Engineering, as well as Undersecretary of the Environment of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2013 he was Vice-prefect, Executive Secretary and Municipal Secretary of Planning of Niteroi, city of which he has been prefect since 2020.

Christian Asinelli is a political scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), has a Master's degree in Public Administration and Policy from the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA) and postgraduate degrees in Urban Economics (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and in Sociourbana Management (FLACSO). In 2019, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from the National University of San Martín (Argentina). During the last sixteen years he has been appointed in different roles in the public sector and the international arena: Alternate National Director of the State Modernization Project at the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2005); Deputy of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2007-2010); Undersecretary of Evaluation of Projects with External Financing of the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2011-2014); Corporate Director of Institutional Development of CAF (2014-2017); President of the Fundación Banco Ciudad (2019) and Undersecretary of International Financial Relations for Development, Secretariat of Strategic Affairs, Presidency of the Nation. He was a Fellow of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program (2010), the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies-MIT (2011) and the Singularity University Executive Program (2017). He is the author of the books Buenos Aires: The city we have, the city we want (Buenos Aires, 2009); Modernization of the Argentine State: policies, management and professional scene (Buenos Aires, Edition, 2015) and Financing Development: The role of multilateral banking in Latin America (Buenos Aires, 2021).