INESAD
Ximena Coronado Tito
Chairman of the Board
Economist specializing in the analysis of public policies related to economic development, public finance, and fiscal decentralization. Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain (2000), associated with the European Program of Advanced Studies in Economics. For several years, she was a senior advisor for the evaluation of public policies in economic and productive areas and was the technical coordinator of government initiatives aimed at establishing platforms for social dialogue on key public policies for development, working for the Ministry of the Presidency, the Ministry of Government, and the Ministry of Autonomies.
In this context, she has coordinated institutional coordination and outreach to relevant social and productive organizations in the country, such as the “Patriotic Agenda for the Bicentennial 2025” (2013) and the “Plurinational Meeting to Deepen Change” (2011–2012). On behalf of the Ministry of Autonomies, she was a member of the team responsible for formulating and debating the Law on Autonomies in Bolivia, coordinating analysis, proposals, and a public-private debate on the design of the fiscal-financial regime of the autonomies established in the 2009 Constitution. She has more than ten years of experience in the strategic and executive coordination of capacity building and state reform programs in the areas of public finance, fiscal decentralization, and subnational debt, working with various development cooperation institutions such as the German Technical Cooperation Agency in Bolivia, the World Bank, United Nations Projects, and ECLAC. She has national and international experience in developing strategies for state and subnational public debt management (Bolivia, England, Mexico, Nicaragua) and the management of public and corporate investment instruments (Spain). She is the author of empirical analysis documents in these areas.
Lykke E. Andersen
Board Member
She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Aarhus University, Denmark. She has conducted research on the environment and development in Latin America for more than 25 years as Executive Director of INESAD, Scientific Manager of Conservation International Bolivia, Chief Economist at the Bolivian Catholic University, and consultant to the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Andean Development Bank, United Nations, and several other development institutions. She currently serves as Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network in Bolivia. She is a prolific writer with more than 300 publications, including a dozen books and more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals. According to RePEc, she ranks among the top 5% of female economists in the world.
Luis Carlos Jemio
Board Member
PhD in Economic Development and Master’s Degree in Economic Policy from the Erasmus Institute for Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. Commercial Engineer from the University of Chile. He served as Minister of Finance of Bolivia in 2004-2005, Senior Economist at the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), Executive Director of the Economic Policy Analysis Unit (UDAPE), and Executive Director of the National Institute of Statistics (INE). He has been an international consultant for the IDB, World Bank, ECLAC, UNDP, USAID, European Union, CAF, ILO, ODI, SECO, GGGI, and CEMLA in areas related to public management. He is an expert on macroeconomic and fiscal policy issues, including public finance management, debt sustainability, fiscal rules and risks, and the development of macroeconomic-sectoral models (e.g., MEGC, financial programming) for the analysis of structural reforms, climate change, fiscal risks, and economic policy in general. He has worked as a public policy advisor in several countries, including Honduras, Paraguay, North Macedonia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and El Salvador. He is a university professor in areas related to macroeconomics and public policy at the Bolivian Catholic University (UCB) and the Bolivian Private University (UPB). He has several national and international publications, including the book: “Debt, Crisis and Reforms in Bolivia,” published by Palgrave, New York in 2001.
Boris Branisa
Board Member
He studied economics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland (Bachelor’s degree in Economics, and Master’s degree in Economics and Finance). He subsequently obtained a Master’s degree in Social Policy and Human Development from the Simón Bolívar Andean University in Bolivia, as well as a Master’s degree in International Economics and a PhD in Economics from the University of Göttingen in Germany. He is fluent in Spanish, German, English, and French, and has a basic knowledge of Portuguese.
He has held various positions at the Central Bank of Bolivia and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim in Germany and as a senior researcher at the INESAD Foundation in Bolivia. He has participated in consultancies for the UNDP, the IDB, the OECD Development Center, the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GIZ), and several other development institutions. He has been a guest expert on the international task force on gender issues and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Think Tanks 20 (T20) expert groups in Argentina in 2018, Japan in 2019, and Saudi Arabia in 2020. He is a research associate at the INESAD Foundation in Bolivia and at the Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research at the University of Göttingen in Germany.
He is a full-time professor at the School of Production and Competitiveness (ePC) at the Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo” (UCB), where he is also Director of the Master’s Degree in Business Finance, the Master’s Degree in Business Administration, and the Institute for the Development of Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness (iDEC).
Enrique García Rodríguez
Board Member
He was Executive President of CAF-Development Bank of Latin America from December 1991 to March 2017. Prior to his election as President of CAF, he was Minister of Planning and Coordination and Head of the Economic and Social Cabinet of Bolivia between 1989 and 1991 and held senior positions at the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Financial Fund of the Basin, as well as Chairman of the Board of CAF. He was also Deputy Secretary of Planning and a member of the board of directors of the Central Bank of Bolivia in the 1970s.
In the academic field, he was a professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and the Universidad Católica, both in Bolivia. He is currently a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and the University of Havana, as well as a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford and Beijing Normal University and professor of the José Bonifácio Chair at the University of São Paulo. He is a full member of the Bolivian Academy of Economic Sciences and the Council of Science and Technology of the Bolivian Academy of Sciences. He has received doctorates and other honorary degrees from several universities internationally. He has published internationally on topics related to the development process and the role and importance of development banks, both multilateral and regional and national.
Mr. García holds a bachelor’s degree (BS) in economics and political science and a master’s degree (MA) in economics from St. Louis University. He has also completed additional postgraduate studies in economic development at American University.
He is currently President of the Latin American International Relations Council (RIAL), Co-President of the Ibero-American Council for Productivity and Competitiveness (CIPYC), Chairman of the Board of the Trust for the Americas, and a member of various boards and advisory councils of different institutions in Bolivia and internationally.