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A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ viewpoints on protests affecting Peru’s copper mining industry.
Luis Miguel Castilla
Peru | Former Finance Minister, Peru
Former Ambassador of Peru to the United States
Luis Miguel Castilla is a Peruvian economist. He was the manager of the Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and previously served as the Peruvian ambassador to the United States. He was the minister of economy and finance under President Ollanta Humala from 2011 to 2014 and deputy minister of the treasury from 2010 to 2011. He also served as chief economist and corporate director of public policies and competitiveness for CAF – Development Bank of Latin America from 2006 to 2009.
Castilla joined the Dialogue as a Member in 2016.
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