March 2007

Garcia says goodbye to IADB after 35 years

One of Latin America’s most distinguished banking careers will come to an end this month. Eloy Garcia, treasurer at the Inter-American Development Bank, will leave the multilateral after its annual meeting in Guatemala at the end of March after 35 years’ service.


The 62-year-old has reached the age for mandatory retirement from the bank.

"My last day will be March 31," he says.

He will turn his attention to full-time teaching at John Hopkins University, where he has run a graduate course for the past 20 years. "One of the ideas is to start a centre for economics and finance for emerging markets with Latin America being a centrepiece."

Garcia has been at the forefront of many of the IADB’s biggest incidents and initiatives. One of...


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