PROFESSIONAL TEAM

Sergio Hinojosa

Degree in Economics and Business Engineering, Universidad de Concepción

Specialty:

Specialist in Public-Private Partnerships, structured financing, financial guarantees and value for money analysis.

Postgraduate:

Studies of Master of Arts in Economics Georgetown University, Master in Finance George Washington University, graduated from the Inter-American Course of Project Preparation and Evaluation (CIAPEP) dictated by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, has a Certificate in Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure in a Market Economy from Harvard Kennedy School, with a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) and a Doctor in Management Sciences, ESADE Business School. Certified PPP Professional (CP3P) by APMG International and accredited trainer for foundation operation and execution.

Experience:

Founding Partner of IKONS ATN. He has been an International Consultant for the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Andean Development Corporation (CAF), US Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nations (UNDP), European Bank of Development (ERDB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), CEPAL / ILPES, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), FLACSO; and for governments and private companies from different countries, in the design and implementation of public-private partnership (PPP) transactions in the financial, economic and institutional areas.

Main countries with experience:

He has worked in specific consultancy in the following countries: Uruguay, Argentina, Panama, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Paraguay. Additionally, he has worked in the development of PPPs for Senegal (Dakar) and Mali (Bamako) in Africa, and in Ukraine (Kiev) in Eastern Europe, Saudi Arabia and Georgia in Asia. He has also collaborated for USAID, IP3 and ERBD in projects and design of PPP courses in Mongolia, Nigeria, Turkey, Egypt, Kenya, Indonesia, Germany, Rwanda, the Philippines and Kazakhstan, and has experience with the ECOWAS countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cap Vert, Cote D’Ivoire, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togo.

Languages:

Spanish, French, English.

Commercial Engineer; PhD, specialist in financial structuring, financial guarantees and Value for Money analysis.

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Julio Toro

Civil engineer

Specialty:

Specialist in business models and APP transactions.

Postgraduate:

Studies of Master in Business Administration IEDE and MBA University of Lleida, has a Certificate in Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure in a Market Economy by Harvard Kennedy School and has been a Research Fellow of the Marvin Center of Cambridge University, UK.

Experience:

He worked as Coordinator of the Projects Division of the Coordination of Concessions in Chile where he led the structuring of more than 20 PPP projects for more than 3 billion dollars, including the urban highway concessions program.

Main countries with experience:

Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador and Guatemala.

Languages:

Spanish English.

Civil Engineer; MBA, specialist in business model and PPP transactions.

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Juan Carlos Junca

Degree in economics from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Colombia

Specialty:

Investment banking specialist.

Postgraduate:

Master in economics from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Colombia, with certificates in finance for real estate developments at Boston University and in finance at Harvard-University.

Experience:

He has 17 years of national and international experience in Project Finance for the sanitation, energy and municipal infrastructure projects with private participation. He has been a Consultant for the World Bank in Washington DC and the IDB on Infrastructure and Public Services for Latin America. Main partner of Structure Capital in Colombia.

Main countries with experience:

Colombia, Haiti, El Salvador, Peru, Uruguay and Argentina.

Languages:

Spanish English.

Degree in Economics; MA, specialist in banking investment.

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Mario Villagómez

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/Finance de Florida Institute of Technology. (USA)

Specialty:

Specialist in transport economics and regulation.

Postgraduate:

MBA studies from the San Francisco de Quito University (Ecuador); She also has a Certificate in Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure in a Market Economy from Harvard Kennedy School.

Experience:

He was the first Undersecretary of Concessions of the Ministry of Public Works of Ecuador and developed the First Plan of Road Concessions of the Republic of Ecuador. With vast experience in public transport projects, BRT road corridors, Conventional Bus Transport, financial modeling, promotion of evaluation of PPP projects. He is a professor of risk analysis and finance at the Catholic University of Quito.

Main countries with experience:

Ecuador, the United States, Chile, Mexico, Ethiopia and Bolivia.

Languages:

Spanish English.

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; MBA, specialist in transportation and regulation.

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José Luis Guasch

Industrial Engineer, Graduated in Economics.

Specialty:

Global specialist in Public-Private Partnerships, concessions, renegotiations, competitiveness and transport logistics.

Postgraduate:

MSc studies in Operational Research, MSc studies in Statistics, and a PhD in Economics. All from Stanford University.

Experience:

With practical experience in consultancies on design and implementation of public policies on infrastructure and competitiveness in more than 70 countries. Author of a vast number of publications in topics such as PPPs and competitiveness, among which; “Granting and Renegotiating Concessions: Doing it Right”; and “The Impact of Private Participation in Infrastructure” are to be highlighted. Former Chief of the Global Experts Unit on PPPs of the World Bank Institute, where he worked for more than 30 years.

Main countries with experience:

Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Guatemala, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, El Salvador, Honduras, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Timor-Leste, Phiilipines, Australia; India, Pakistan; Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary, Croatia, Georgia, Spain; Mozambique, South Africa, Cape Verde, Angola, Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan

Languages:

Spanish, English, Portuguese, French.

Industrial Engineer; PhD, global PPP specialist, concessions, renegotiations, competitiveness and logistics transportation.

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Jorge Montecinos

Industrial Civil Engineer, University of Chile

Specialty:

Public Finance Specialist for Infrastructure.

Postgraduate:

Studies of MSc in Finance, University of Illinois Urbana Champaing- He has a Certificate in Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure in a Market Economy by Harvard Kennedy School and has a Master in Management and Financing of Private Projects and Concessions at the European University of Madrid. She is PhD (c) in Economics University of Queensland, Australia.

Experience:

He has been an official of the Ministry of Finance (Finance) and the Ministry of Public Works in Chile. Since 2012 he has been a permanent consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on matters of fiscal policy and infrastructure financing.

Main countries with experience:

Zimbabwe, Colombia, Peru, Australia, Spain, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Kenya, Philippines, USA, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mexico and Panama.

Languages:

Spanish English.

Industrial Civil Engineer; MSc y PhD©, specialist in Public Finance for Infrastructure.

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Patricio Mansilla

Commercial Engineer Universidad de Concepción

Specialty:

Senior Economist and Senior PPP Specialist.

Postgraduate:

PhD in Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Master of Arts in Economics Georgetown University, Master and PhD© in Economics Duke University. Graduated from the PIMA Catholic University of Chile Program.

Experience:

Mr. Mansilla is an economist with 22 years of experience in large infrastructure project management, and in the design and implementation of alliances and public-private partnerships (PPP) Mr. Mansilla was an infrastructure integration specialist of IADB based in Chile, leading the IADB representation in the IIRSA initiative and the transport sector in Chile. Mr. Mansilla was the Director of the Mongolia Business Plus Initiative (BPI) focus on foster PPPs in Infrastructure with the support of USAID and CHEMONICS.

Main countries with experience:

Peru, Kazajistan, Colombia, Mongolia, Egipto, Filipinas, Mongolia, Jordania, Chile, El Salvador, USA, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama.

Languages:

Spanish, English.

Commercial Engineer; MA & PhD, senior economist and senior PPP specialist.

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Miguel Almeyda

Degree in International Relations, Universidad Iberoamericana

Specialty:

International Development Financing / Access to Mortgage Financing.

Postgraduate:

Master in Finance from The George Washington University. Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Diploma in Government and Public Policy by the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA).

Experience:

Extensive experience in developing and/or overseeing the execution of vast portfolios of financing and technical cooperations at major multilateral institutions (over USD 1 billion in total). These portfolios were comprised by initiatives in over 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, all aimed at addressing either private sector development, access to mortgage financing, public infrastructure, and business environment enhancement.

As Senior Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, he supervised the implementation technical cooperation projects aimed at enabling business environments for private sector development, particularly by increasing access to mortgage finance by deepening the Mexican mortgage market, and by directing remittances from Mexicans living in the USA to the Mexican mortgage market.

As Country Manager at the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), he planned and directed the public infrastructure portfolio of the Bank in Guatemala. As Head of the Private Sector Division at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in Barbados, he drafted CDB’s Private Sector Strategy, while managing its private sector lending portfolio. At the World Bank in Washington DC, he conducted research on the investing environment of Peru, Ecuador, and Chile.

Main countries with experience:

Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, USA, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica.

Languages:

Spanish, English.

Degree in International Relations; MSc, senior PPP specialist.

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