Pablo Pereira is an Strategic, Program Innovation Officer and economist at the Strategic Planning and Knowledge Division (DSP/SPK) based in HQ. He supports strategic and corporate planning, IDBG Country Strategy processes and knowledge products and dissemination. Pablo holds a MSC in Project Finance from the University of York (UK), a MSC in Financial Markets from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a Major in Economics from the same University. Before joining IDB Invest in September 2019, Pablo was a regional economist for Central America, Mexico, Haiti and Dominican Republic at IDB/VPC and consultant at IDB/VPS in INE. He worked for the World Bank in payments system development in Washington DC and was a Senior Advisor and Executive Director at the IMF representing the Southern-Cone countries. He also worked as an Investment Officer in economic and social infrastructure at FONPLATA and provided consultancy services to the private sector in green field projects.
The global COVID-19 vaccination campaign will be the largest in history and the delivery of vaccines brings major challenges of scale and speed. Here’s three ways in which the private sector in Latin America and the Caribbean has a strategic role to play in that process.