Reina Irene Mejía Chacón serves as senior advisor in ThinkHUGE Business and Investment Council, which promotes investment projects from the United States, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Also, she currently serves as the external public sector expert member of the Performance Management Board of the United Nations. This board advises the UN Secretary-General on matters of senior-level performance as well as strengthening accountability and transparency across all UN Secretariat entities. 

Reina Irene Mejía Chacón, served as executive vice president (EVP) and chief operating officer (COO) of the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) from December 16, 2020 to May 31, 2023. She also served as president a.i. of the IDB from September to December 2022. From June 2023 to December 2023, she worked on the transition of the new EVP. Prior to joining the IDB, she spent nearly 25 years at Citibank. She was the CEO and corporate & investment head of Citibank Honduras from 2013 until 2020. She also served as secretary of the Board of Banco de Honduras, from 2014 to 2020 and secretary of the Board of Grupo Financiero Citibank Costa Rica from 2017 to 2020. Ms. Mejía also served as president of the Honduran American Chamber of Commerce and vice president of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America and the Caribbean (AACCLA) in the years before joining the IDB. Among positions in her early career, she was General Manager of FUNDES Honduras, a consultancy firm specializing in the development of MSMEs. In addition, Ms. Mejía has held Board positions or senior roles at several other financial and educational institutions and has been active in a range of women’s business-leadership initiatives. She also founded and worked for more than a decade as treasurer of the Honduras chapter of Operation Smile, which has helped more than 5,000 children by providing surgeries to correct cleft lip and palate. In 2023, 2021 and 2018, she was selected by Forbes Centro América as one of the most influential women of the region, and among the leaders who are making a difference at the national and international levels in the field of business, multilateral organizations, science, and sports. In 2023, Vida y Exito Magazine, named Reina Irene Mejia as one of the Central American and the Caribbean Women to Highlight during this year. Strategy and Business magazine named Ms. Mejía one of the most influential women in the region in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Mrs. Mejia holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA from Southern Illinois University. She has completed additional graduate courses in Leadership and Customer-Centric Growth from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania