Eloy Garcia, formerly of the IDB: A cool head in a crisis

Eloy Garcia spent 35 years at the Inter-American Development Bank, most recently as a treasurer, before retiring last year. Now a professor at Johns Hopkins University, he tells Sudip Roy of the enormous challenges the bank and the Latin American region have faced and the progress made.

Eloy Garcia spent 35 years at the Inter-American Development Bank, most recently as a treasurer, before retiring last year. Now a professor at Johns Hopkins University

“Maybe we won’t see
the same bank, but
there will still be an
Inter-American
Development Bank,
or Inter-American
Bank, doing something
different”







Eloy Garcia


How has the bank changed over the years since you first joined and what was biggest change over that time? Garcia: My first job at the bank was as a loan administration officer for Chile, and that was the time of the Salvador Allende government, so I’ve seen a lot of changes.

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