Leonardo Martinez-Diaz of U.S. Treasury

AS/COA held a discussion with Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere at the U.S. Treasury Department Leonardo Martinez-Diaz. He shared an overview of the macroeconomic climate in Latin America and the Caribbean, and perspectives on U.S. economic relations with the region.

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Event information: Madeleine Johnson | mjohnson@as-coa.org | 305-779-4816

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz joined the U.S. Treasury Department as deputy assistant secretary in August 2011. Previously, he served as director of the office of policy at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he was responsible for development policy formulation and analysis. Prior to that, Assistant Secretary Martinez-Diaz was a fellow and deputy director of the global economy and development program at the Brookings Institution. He has also served as deputy director of Brookings’ Partnership for the Americas Commission, consultant for the International Monetary Fund, and director of the high-level commission on the modernization of World Bank Group Governance. Before becoming a fellow at Brookings, he was a research associate with the Global Economic Governance Program at Oxford University, where he focused on the politics of banking reform in developing countries and the role of the IMF in financial crisis-management. Assistant Secretary Martinez-Diaz, received a M.Phil degree and D.Phil from Magdalen College of Oxford University, where he specialized in International Political Economy and was a Marshall Scholar. He graduated with honors from Northwestern University with degrees in Economics and Political Science and was a Truman Scholar.