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       Cedric Bridger, YPF Cedric Bridger joined YPF in 1992, about a year before the company’s landmark privatization. Prior to that, like the late Pepe Estenssoro, he worked at Hughes Tool in Argentina for 10 years, before setting up the firm’s Brazilian operations, which he managed for 15 years. An Argentine by birth […]

       Charles H. Dallara, Institute for International Finance From 1988 to 1991, Charles Dallara served as US assistant Treasury secretary-first, for policy development and later for international affairs-and was a key player in the Treasury team that put together the debt reduction strategy known as the Brady Plan. Dallara left the Treasury in […]

       Daniel Marx, Merchant Bankers Asociados Daniel Marx recently left US private equity firm Darby Overseas Investments to return to his native Argentina as a partner at Merchant Bankers Asociados, where he will especially focus on MBA’s asset management activities. He made his name in the external debt trenches, as Argentina’s chief debt […]

       Emilio and Ana Patricia Botín, Banco Santander Grupo Santander Chairman Emilio Botín and his daughter, Ana Patricia Botín, have clearly left their mark on Latin America’s banking landscape. In just 12 months, between November 1996 and November 1997, Santander went on an acquisition sweep from Mexico to Argentina, bringing the bank’s total […]

       Enrique Garcia, Corporacion Andina de Fomento Enrique Garcia is serving his second term as president of Corporacion Andina de Fomento, having been named to the post in 1991. Garcia has also served as treasurer at the Inter-American Development Bank as well as planning minister of his native country, Bolivia. In the last […]

       Enrique Iglesias, Inter-American Development Bank A former central banker and foreign minister in his native Uruguay, Enrique Iglesias brought an extensive diplomatic and academic background with him to his current position as president of the Inter-American Development Bank, a post he assumed in 1988. Iglesias recently took time out of his busy […]

       Everett J. Santos, Emerging Markets PartnershipFollowing a USAID-sponsored stint in the 1970s advising Latin governments on how to strengthen domestic capital markets, Everett Santos put his investment banking background to work in the 1980s in the International Finance Corporation’s investments and portfolio operations division. In 1992, he left that post to head […]

       Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil When Fernando Henrique Cardoso was named Brazilian finance minister in 1993, few could have foreseen the dramatic changes that would follow in the ensuing five years. The implementation and continued success of the Real Plan, his victorious bid for the presidency, and crucial-though not yet complete-government […]

       Floris Deckers, ABN Amro Floris Deckers is president of ABN Amro’s Latin America and Caribbean regional office, based in São Paulo, where he has been stationed since the office was relocated there from Amsterdam in 1994. He’s a 17-year veteran of the bank, with the majority of his time spent in structured […]