PANEL: EMERGING GEOGRAPHIC TRENDS IN EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS

Bernardo Guillamon joined in October 2023 as Senior Consultant with Syntax. Before that he worked for 30+ year with the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), based in Washington D.C, where he was from 2022-23 Chief of the Office of the President. He was the Manager of that Office from 2008 until 2022, in charge of the teams dedicated to resource mobilization, partnerships and fiduciary management of third-party funds, and the offices of the IDB in Europe and Asia. He joined IDB in 1992 and achieved leadership positions in the lending program for trade and investment, private sector financing, microfinance, and small business development, and also in evaluation and oversight.

Before joining IDB he worked as consultant in agribusiness in California and for the World Bank in Washington. Also, in Uruguay he was employed with The Coca-Cola Company bottler, and for other local firms in also in sales and marketing of agriculture equipment and inputs. Additionally, he worked in agribusiness production in his family’s farm, and wrote about agribusiness in Diario El Pais of Uruguay and specialized agribusiness magazine in his home country.

He holds an MBA in Agribusiness from Santa Clara University (Silicon Valley, California) and received the degree of Agriculture Engineer from Universidad de la República in Uruguay.