• Technical Manager of the
Bank of the Republic • Economist, Research leader for the
Inter-American Development Bank. • Dean of the Economics Department at the University of the Andes. • Colombian Viceminister of Finance in 2002. • Was elected President of the
World Bank and
International Monetary Fund Development Committee in 2005. • elected President of the
Andean Fomenting Corporation Directorate since 2006. • (Inactive) member of the
Latin American Financial Affairs Committee (CLAAF). • As Minister of Finance and Public Credit receives an honorary membership to the
Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia, President of the Executive Directorate of
Bank of the Republic, member of the Executive Directorate of
Ecopetrol and member of the
Latin American Reserves Fund (FLAR) • Was a weekly columnist of the Colombian newspaper of
El Espectador and
El Tiempo in
Bogotá. ==Other activities==