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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).

Degree in Economic Sciences with a specialty in Economic Theory, from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has previously served as Managing Partner of Economics at Analistas Financieros Internacionales (AFI); Deputy Director General for International Trade in Services and Investments at the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness; Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Economic and Commercial Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington D.C.; General Director of International Financing at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Similarly, he has been Secretary of the Government Delegate Commission for Economic Affairs; President of the Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Monetary Offenses and President of the Investment Advisory Commission of the Social Security Reserve Fund. He was also Alternate Governor for Spain in the World Bank Group, in the Inter-American Development Bank, in the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, in the Asian Development Bank, in the Asian Bank for Infrastructure Investment, in the African Development Bank and at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In the academic area, he has been Professor in the Master of Finance at AFI School and Associate Professor of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid.

Manager of urban development and creative economies for CAF- Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-. He previously served as a director for the energy projects for the South Region at CAF. Angel Cardenas is an Eisenhower Fellow at Eisenhower Fellowships, a forum that brings leaders from around the world to spend several weeks meeting with experts in their fields of interest throughout the US in the spirit of making the world more peaceful, prosperous, and just. Cardenas has worked for the World Bank, Universidad Central de Venezuela, and the University of Toronto.