Mauricio Claver-Carone is President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. He has led the Bank’s unprecedented response to COVID-19 and spearheaded the creation and implementation of “Vision 2025,” a blueprint for post-pandemic recovery and growth that prioritizes integration and nearshoring, digitalization, small businesses, gender equality, and climate change. Under his leadership, the Bank has assembled the largest private private-sector coalition in its history to help leverage financing for critical development goals. A lawyer by training, he previously served as Deputy Assistant to the U.S. President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council. In this capacity, he conceptualized a whole-of-government economic growth initiative, América Crece, which led to the creation of energy- and infrastructure-finance frameworks with nearly half of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. He also served as U.S. Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund, playing an important role in lending arrangements for Argentina, Barbados, and Ecuador, and as Senior Advisor for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he helped develop legislation to create the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. A native of Miami, he speaks English and Spanish. Mauricio Claver-Carone es presidente del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), la fuente de financiamiento líder para el desarrollo de América Latina y el Carib.