Christian Asinelli is currently corporate vice president of strategic programming at CAF Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Asinelli is a political scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), has a master’s degree in public administration and policy from the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA) and postgraduate degrees in urban economics (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and in socio-urban management (FLACSO). In 2019, he received his PhD in political science from the National University of San Martín (Argentina).

During the last 16 years he has been appointed to different roles in the public sector and the international arena: alternate national director of the state modernization project at the chief of staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2005); deputy of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2007-2010); undersecretary of evaluation of projects with external financing of the chief of staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2011-2014); corporate director of institutional development of CAF (2014-2017); president of the Fundación Banco Ciudad (2019) and undersecretary of international financial relations for development, secretariat of strategic affairs, Presidency of the Nation. He was a fellow of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program (2010), the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies-MIT (2011) and the Singularity University Executive Program (2017). He is the author of the books Buenos Aires: The city we have, the city we want (Buenos Aires, 2009); Modernization of the Argentine State: policies, management and professional scene (Buenos Aires, Edition, 2015) and Financing Development: The role of multilateral banking in Latin America (Buenos Aires, 2021).

Asinelli was an event speaker at the Dialogue.