Juan Carlos Páez

Director ESG - Infrastructure and Industrial Processes at IDB Invest. Juan Carlos, a civil engineer (National Polytechnic School of Ecuador) with a master’s degree in Infrastructure Planning (University of Stuttgart, Germany), is a project manager and a socio-environmental auditor certified in ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. He has more than 30 years of professional experience in management of public and private projects; socio-environmental management; execution of socio-environmental studies; conception and execution of hydraulic, civil and road projects; public acquisitions; socio-environmental audits; and management of state modernization programs, social programs and agricultural development programs, among others. He was the Director of the Environmental Advisory Program for the Andean Region with Fundación Natura, perhaps the most important NGO of Ecuador at that time. He served as Under-Secretary (Vice-Minister) of Environmental Management in the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador, and since 1998 has been a specialist of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, managing public and private projects in almost all Latin American countries. As a Principal Environmental and Social Officer of the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Division of IDB Invest, the private window of the IDB Group, he is the Head of Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Telecom and Tourism Sectors. Juan Carlos has so far published 4 books and various articles on issues related to the environment and the management of natural resources.