Social Policy Specialist, UNICEF, Gaborone, Botswana. (March 2009-March 2010)
Responsible for supporting the Government of Botswana in areas related to conceptualization and preparation of national social development policy; design and structure of interagency coordinating council for the analysis of children issues; preparation of action plan for the implementation of Children’s Act; preparation of Children’s Budget; and design of content and scope of policies on family, women, and children. Conducted studies on women's and children’s rights and budgets; the macroeconomic impact of HIV aids on economic growth; the impact of the global crisis on social development; and relationships between education and child labor. Designed longitudinal surveys to monitor and assess the effectiveness of special education programs. Conducted dissemination and advocacy activities by means of workshops on international experiences of social protection, human capital, labor markets, and gender, and on monitoring and evaluation.
Human Development Consultant, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), San Salvador, El Salvador (September 2006–December 2007)
In charge of designing the general approach and content of the 2007 El Salvador Human Development Report. Other responsibilities included: the design of evaluation methodology to gauge results and impacts resulting from Human Development Reports; conducting analytical studies on determinants of poverty and of underemployment; performing studies on the regional incidence of poverty; and on the consequences of economic reform on wages, employment and related gender issues.
Senior Evaluation Officer, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Washington DC (1998– 2005)
Responsibilities included the preparation of papers and coordination of working groups, on project evaluation, guidelines on institutional development, electronic systems for project monitoring, and the design of project performance benchmarks. Other responsibilities included: the design of the system for the review of Loan and Programming Committees’ documents for quality control and for the analysis and evaluation of multi-annual lending programs and budgets; development of an alarm system for project slippage in the attainment of annual targets; project sustainability guidelines; analysis of recurrent issues on sector portfolio execution; preparation and analysis of project implementation reports; systems for enhancement of sector performance and effectiveness; systems for certification of quality at entry and of quality of supervision; system for forecasting probability of project implementation problems.
Principal Programming Officer, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Washington DC (1991-1998)
Responsible for the preparation of country and regional strategies, and methodologies for the medium-term strategic planning; design of new lending and financial policies; macroeconomic and sector studies; analytical issues papers, and mid-term strategic plans. Design of methodologies for the allocations of the Bank’s concessional resources; design of a system for country risk measurement/ monitoring; system for monitoring execution of the annual budget and work program; estimation of models to forecast demand for lending; design of new financial instruments/funds, guidelines for the preparation of country and sector strategies, proposals of new Bank lending initiatives. Member of project teams in the design and execution of sector/investment loans.
Chief, Planning Department, Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), Tegucigalpa, Honduras, (1984–1991)
Supervised
three Divisions (with 21 officers and 7 support staff). Executive experience
involved
Supervision
and technical direction of:
· Strategic
Planning Division: country and regional
strategy papers, preparation of annual operative plan and corresponding budget,
sector strategies, medium-term strategic plan, ex-post evaluation, and
evaluation methodologies, monthly monitoring and rescheduling of
lending/non-lending programs, monthly evaluation of the annual operative plan
and budget expenditures and analysis of slippage, annual evaluation of the strategic
plan. · Financial
Policy and Planning Division: annual formulation and evaluation of short and medium-term
financial plans, methodologies for country risk and exposure analysis and
preparation of annual risk report, annual and mid-term net income allocation,
preparation of financial policies (solvency, interest rate, liquidity,
loan-loss reserve); design of new financial instruments and funds. · Economic
Studies Division: Macroeconomic and
sector studies, annual agenda of policy review with member countries,
simulations with econometric models, annual agenda and briefing papers for discussions
with donors, edition, and publication of working papers, Annual Report, books,
and Journal.
Chief, Economic Studies and General Programming Division, Central American Bank for Economic Integration, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, (1978 – 1984)
Supervised staff of six economists in the preparation of annual operative plans, medium-term strategic plans, sector strategies, sub-regional and national macroeconomic studies, briefing papers for discussions with national authorities, and ex-post evaluations.
Associate and Senior Electrical Engineer, Utah Power and Light Co.,
Salt Lake City, Utah, (1969 – 1978)
Responsibilities included: the preparation of economic and engineering design of the transmission, distribution, and generation projects, analysis of power system stability, load flow, short circuit and reliability studies, electric power system planning, and evaluation of expansion paths; valuation of externalities: environmental impact, ozone generation, electrostatic radiation, the aesthetic impact of transmission and distribution lines.
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida (January 1986-May 1986)
Taught a senior-level course on Central American economic development.
Visiting Professor, Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas, San José, Costa Rica, (March 1990-April 1991)
Conducted seminars and directed research projects on economic integration
Visiting Professor, Concordia University of Wisconsin, Quito, Ecuador, October 2010
Taught MBA-level course on Development Economics
Visiting Professor, Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, September 2016
Taught graduate-level course on Central American economic integration