Denis is an Investment Consultant, Advisory Services and Blended Finance Team at IDB Invest, which he joined in 2019. He is responsible for providing active support to private corporations and public entities for the Development of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects. Before joining the IDB Group, Denis worked for more than three years as manager of the Infrastructure and PPP team at Deloitte in Colombia, where he participated in the financial structuring of several social infrastructure and transportation projects. He also worked as Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Officer at Fluxys, a Belgian industrial group focused on energy storage and transportation infrastructure. Denis has extensive experience in the structuring and assessment of infrastructure projects, particularly in Colombia and Peru, and in the rest of the Latin American region as well. Denis earned a master’s degree in economics from Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, and a master’s degree in financial management from Vlerick Business School (both in Belgium).
COVID-19 has presented an additional challenge to the expansion of water and sanitation access in the region, with a reduction in related investments; public-private partnerships and other resources such as access to local currency financing are expected to help expand private investment in the sector.