Emilio Pineda has been Head of the Fiscal Management Division of the IDB since September 2019. Mexican, he studied at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Columbia University (United States of America), where he obtained a PhD in Political Economy. Between 2003 and 2008 he worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as an Economist in the Western Hemisphere Department where he was responsible for conducting monetary, fiscal and debt analysis for the Caribbean region. Between May 2008 and June 2012, he worked at the Ministry of Finance in Mexico where he was responsible for the monitoring and regulation of subnational debt, the accounting harmonization of states and municipalities and the tax regime of public companies including PEMEX. Between 2012 and 2019, he served as Senior Tax Specialist in the Fiscal Management Division of the Inter-American Development Bank, where he led programs to strengthen subnational fiscal management in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. He has also published papers in the areas of decentralization, subnational taxes, subnational debt and public enterprises.

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