ENRIQUE IGLESIAS

Former President of the Inter American Development Bank. He served more than 17 years as president of the IDB, presiding over a period of strong growth of the institution’s resources and an expansion of its activities. Under his leadership the Bank became the leading source of multilateral development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. After his successive election by the Board of Governors to four five-year terms, Iglesias resigned on Sept. 30, 2005, in the middle of his fourth term. He subsequently became the first secretary general of the Ibero-American Secretariat, an office based in Madrid, Spain, that provides technical assistance and coordinates the annual Ibero-American conferences and summits.