Ellis J. Juan

Division Chief, Housing and Urban Development Division. Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Washington, DC, USA.

Ellis J. Juan is the Division Chief of the Housing and Urban Development Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). From January 2012 to May 2016, he was the General Coordinator of the IDB’s Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative (ESCI). Between 2008 and 2012, Mr. Juan served as the IDB Country Representative in Mexico, where he oversaw the Bank’s operations in the public, private and sub-national sectors, in addition to new business development in Mexico. He has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure financing through various positions at the World Bank, Santander Bank and the IDB. In addition, he has extensive management experience in Latin America, having worked in Venezuela’s private sector in both the industrial and financial sectors for nearly 20 years. From 1989-1991 he served as Vice-minister of Privatization during the Economic Reform Program carried out under President Carlos Andres Perez, successfully privatizing several key state-owned enterprises. Ellis J. Juan obtained an MBA from Columbia University, New York and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Andres Bello Catholic University in Venezuela.