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Rachel Robboy

Rachel Robboy is an experienced international development banker with core expertise in financial and non-financial risk management, portfolio management, deal structuring and business development with a focus on Latin America.

As Chief Risk Officer of IDB Invest, Ms. Robboy oversees credit, market, and operational risk along with the environmental and social risk and special assets teams. Ms. Robboy chairs and votes on multiple senior management bank committees, and is a leader of sustainability; diversity, equity and inclusion; and corporate ethics at IDB Invest.

Over the past two decades, Ms. Robboy has held senior-level positions at the Inter-American Development Bank Group including Chief of the Portfolio Management Division and advisor to the Vice President for Private Sector and Non-Sovereign Guaranteed Operations, as well as other leading roles in the Infrastructure Division and the Special Operations Unit.

Ms. Robboy holds an MBA in international finance and a master’s in international affairs from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, both in Washington, D.C.

Rafael González

Rafael joined IDB Invest in January 2023 and is currently a consultant in the Sustainable Business and MSMEs team within the Advisory division. Before IDB Invest, Rafael worked as a Distribution Executive for the retail and institutional segment in LATAM and US Offshore at Jupiter Asset Management, a London-based asset manager; before this, he was a Financial Services Commercial Officer at the UK Department for International Trade; promoting investment, trade, and technical cooperation between the UK and Colombia, including the analysis of regulatory barriers to market access; and lastly, Rafael worked as an Associate Relationship Manager at Citibank Corporate Banking. Rafael holds a Master's degree in Development Management from the London School of Economics and an undergraduate degree in International Business Administration from Universidad de la Sabana.

Rafael Matas

RAFAEL MATAS TRILLO is presently Head of the Andean Region and Energy Sector Lead, in the Infrastructure and Energy Division of IDB Invest, based at IDB Invest’s head-office. He has been working for the IDB Group since 2007, leading the development of transportation, renewable energy, transmission and water and sanitation transactions in Latin-America.

As Head of the Andean Region since 2020, Mr. Matas leads a team that has structured and financed paramount transactions such as Lima Airport, the Rumichaca-Pasto and Pamplona-Cucuta 4G toll-roads through social bonds, the first solar PV project finance transactions in Colombia, and the largest wind projects in Peru to date with Engie and Enel, among others.

He is presently also the Energy Sector Lead of IDB Invest, where he leverages on the experience and knowledge of the energy markets, obtained throughout the last 17 years helping countries to develop its PPA frameworks (such as Uruguay or the Dominican Republic), structuring numerous solar, wind and green transmission transactions (in Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Colombia), and designing innovative products such as the first Total Credit Guarantee from the IDB Group to wrap a debenture of infrastructure to finance a wind transaction in Brazil, or the IDB Invest Green Transmission Line Certificate.

A Spanish national, he has received awards for innovative project finance execution. Previous to the IDB Group, Mr. Matas worked for the Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in its Hong Kong office for two years, managing the Spanish desk of the BBVA in China, and mainly devoting to corporate finance transactions.

He has a Law Degree and LLM by ESADE (Spain) and a Master in Foreign Service by Georgetown University.

Raúl Sánchez

Raúl Sánchez is a Development Effectiveness officer for the IDB Invest Strategy and Development Department. He is in charge of developing impact assessments of innovative projects to provide evidence to our clients. Raúl is specialized in transportation, health, education, and telecommunications projects. He has a doctorate in economics from the University of Illinois and master's degrees in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and La Plata.

Rebeca Fernández

Rebeca Fernández coordinates technical advisory projects for the Corporate Governance unit of IDB Invest, a team she joined in 2019. She is a specialist in the development of communication, promotion and participation strategies that result in the dissemination of sustainable business practices. Before joining the IDB Group, she worked as a journalist, specializing in politics and business, for Diario El Universal (Venezuela), Latin Trade Magazine and Univisión, among other media. She has a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Venezuela), a master's degree in International Relations from the Instituto de Empresas (Spain) and a professional certification in Public Relations from Rutgers University (USA).

Resource Mobilization Team

The Resource Mobilization team is responsible for sourcing third party funding from investors to complement IDB Invest’s own capital in the transactions we finance. The team consists of 11 professionals with responsibility in both transaction distribution and product development: Carlos de Andres Gayon, Florencia Bocco, Martina Cometti, Monica Fernandez, Ornella Gutierrez, Jozef Henriquez, Felipe Macia, Luara Maraston, Sebastian Padilla, Juan Carlos Reboulen and Jan Weiss.

Ricardo de Vecchi

Ricardo De Vecchi es oficial líder en administración de inversiones en BID Invest, con sede en Washington, D.C., donde encabeza el departamento de asesoría en asociaciones público-privadas en América Latina y el Caribe. Ricardo tiene más de 15 años de experiencia en el desarrollo de proyectos de infraestructura. Previamente, fue Coordinador de México y Perú para el Programa de Ciudades Emergentes y Sostenibles del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo; vicepresidente de América Latina de la firma CG/LA Infrastructure, y miembro del Servicio Exterior Mexicano. Ricardo cuenta con dos maestrías, una en relaciones internacionales de la Universidad de Georgetown, y otra en estudios diplomáticos por la Academia Diplomática Mexicana, además de una licenciatura en comercio internacional por el Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey.

RMB Team

The Resource Mobilization team is responsible for sourcing third party funding from investors to complement IDB Invest’s own capital in the transactions we finance. The team consists of 11 professionals with responsibility in both transaction distribution and product development: Carlos de Andres Gayon, Florencia Bocco, Martina Cometti, Monica Fernandez, Ornella Gutierrez, Jozef Henriquez, Felipe Macia, Luara Maraston, Sebastian Padilla, Juan Carlos Reboulen and Jan Weiss.

Rocio Funes

Rocio Funes Aguilera leads IDB Invest institutional efforts in knowledge management and solutions. Rocio has experience in the design and implementation of IDB Group strategies and business plans to address development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining the organization, Rocio worked as a project manager at Dalberg, a strategic consulting firm focused on private sector development, with public and private sector clients. Previously, Rocio held various positions in UN organizations, including UNDP Liberia. Rocio has a dual degree in Law and Business Administration from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and has a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Rocío Medina Bolívar

Rocío Medina Bolívar is the Country Manager of the Inter-American Development Bank Group in Belize. Ms. Medina Bolivar manages the IDB Group’s public and private sector in Belize that include IDB Invest and IDB Lab. Before this designation, she was the IDB Group Country Manager in Panama, Country Manager in Trinidad and Tobago, Principal Advisor for the Department of Andean Group Countries (CAN) in Washington D.C., as well as Country Manager in Venezuela. Rocío has extensive experience in public and private sector financing, particularly related to infrastructure projects, as well as capital market transactions. Ms. Medina Bolívar has held various advisory and management positions at the IDB over the past 20 years. She holds a Law Degree (Summa Cum Laude) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and an LLM from Harvard Law School.

Rodolfo Stucchi

Rodolfo Stucchi is Director of Development Impact at IDB Invest. His areas of expertise include development economics, public policy evaluation, and macroeconomics. Rodolfo has extensive experience in portfolio monitoring and management, ex-ante and ex-post economic analysis of public and private sector projects, monitoring and evaluation, impact evaluations, and macroeconomics. Previously, he was Head of Development Impact for the Andean Region and the Southern Cone and Head of Monitoring and Evaluation both at IDB Invest. He also was Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and The World Bank, and Economist for the Government of the Province of Córdoba in Argentina. Rodolfo has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Macroeconomics, The World Bank Economic Review, and Economia, among others. His research focuses on topics related to productivity, employment, innovation, trade, and access to credit. He was also Visiting Professor at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina), Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo (Bolivia), Universidad de Chile (Chile), and Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen (Germany). Rodolfo holds a PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) and a BSc in Economics from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina).

Rodrigo García