Liliana Rojas-Suarez is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Latin America Initiative at the Center for Global Development. She is also the President of the Latin American Committee on Macroeconomic and Financial Issues. From March 1998 to October 2000, she served as Managing Director and Chief Economist for Latin America at Deutsche Bank. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Ms. Rojas-Suarez held high level positions at the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements, the Bank of Spain and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She has also been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, a Professor at Anahuac University in Mexico and an Advisor for PEMEX, Mexico’s National Petroleum Company. Ms. Rojas-Suarez has also testified before a Joint Committee of the US Senate on the issue of dollarization in Latin America. In 2012, the Peruvian Chamber of Commerce distinguished her with the prize Economist of the Year. And in 2022 Forbes magazine named her one the 50 most influential women in Peru. In her different capacities, Ms. Rojas-Suarez has advised a large number of governments, banks, corporations and international organizations throughout the world. Ms. Rojas-Suarez has published widely in the areas of financial markets and regulations, macroeconomic policy and international economics. Ms. Rojas-Suarez holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario.