José Luis Curbelo to become VP of Development Strategies and Public Policies at CAF

(Caracas, October 24, 2012). Enrique García, executive president of CAF, announced the appointment of José Luis Curbelo as Vice President of Development Strategies and Public Policy at the institution, noting his outstanding track record in his native Spain as well as globally.

Curbelo, whose term as Vice President begins Nov. 1, has served as general manager of Orkestra-Basque Institute of Development; he was also director of the Investment Department at Spanish development agency Compañía Española de Financiación del Desarrollo (COFIDES); head of the Small Enterprise Investment Facility of the Multilateral Investment Fund (known by its Spanish acronym FOMIN) at the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) and chief economist at mortgage lender Banco Hipotecario de España.

CAF’s new Vice President of Development Strategies and Public Policy has a strong academic background, with a Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley; a Ph.D. in Economics and Business Administration from the University of the Basque Country at Bilbao; a M. Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a graduate degree in Economics from the University of the Basque Country at Bilbao.

He was a senior lecturer, or catedrático, at the Entrepreneurship Chair at Antonio de Nebrija University in Madrid; professor of Project Finance and Foreign Trade and Investment in the MBA course at Carlos III University, as well as in the Master course in International Business at Rey Juan Carlos University-Ortega y Gasset Institute. He has taught at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). He has also been visiting professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais at Belo Horizonte (Brazil). He is senior researcher at Spain’s National Research Council (CSIC). He is the author and editor of several books, articles and reports.