Christian Velasquez-Donaldson
Associate, Latin America Program
Christian, before joining BIC, worked with the Regional Adviser on International Trade of the UN-Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) doing research on private-public alliance for export development and economic strategies from Latin American and extra-regional case studies. He was a research fellow at the Institutions and Governance Program of the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Institute for Advance Development Studies (INESAD), a Bolivian think tank, doing research on the Bolivian hydrocarbon policy before and after its nationalization, the sector’s fiscal policy and the internal allocation system of the sector’s revenues.
Christian is originally from Bolivia where he worked as a lead engineer in charge of the design and supervision of infrastructure projects at the Social Works of Rural Road Access (O.S.C.A.R.), an NGO that works on integration and development of isolated rural areas in Bolivia. While with UN-ECLAC, he also worked part time doing counseling and direct services for the homeless population of Arlington, Virginia. Christian holds a MA in International Development focused on Economic Development and Public Policies from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, a graduate degree in Road Design from the University of San Juan in Argentina, and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Military School of Engineering (EMI) in Bolivia.
BICECA
Latin America
Peru
Andean Development Corporation
Inter-American Development Bank