Antonio Vives has been appointed as a consulting professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, to assist with CRGP research, educational and industry outreach activities. Late in 2007, Mr. Vives retired from his position as manager of the Sustainable Development Department of the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB. He was with the IDB in various capacities for 28 years.

Most recently his expertise has been devoted to sustainability, corporate social responsibility, business climate, infrastructure finance, financial market development and micro and SME finance in emerging economies. He has led the IDB efforts in Sustainability, producing the IDB's first Sustainability Report and creating the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative. He was a member of the Investment Committee of the Pension Fund of the Bank (currently over US$2.5 billion in assets) for 25 years, 15 of which as Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Vives has been a professor at the IESA Graduate School of Management in Venezuela, and at the graduate business schools of Carnegie Mellon, George Washington and Virginia Tech universities in the United States.

He has authored a textbook on corporate financial evaluation and published numerous articles on corporate social responsibility, financial management and private infrastructure. Most recent publications are Private Infrastructure: Ten Commandments for Sustainability, Pension Funds in Infrastructure Project Finance: Regulations and Instrument Design, Private Infrastructure Investment at the Subnational Level: Challenges in Emerging Economies, all published in The Journal of Project Finance, and "Financial Intermediation and Policy Based Lending: Policy Recommendation for Latin America and the Caribbean". Most recently co-wrote "Financial Structuring of Infrastructure Projects in Public Private Partnerships", published by the IDB.

Has edited five volumes of the Proceedings of the Inter-American Conferences on Corporate Social Responsibility and written numerous articles on the topic, the most recent ones being "Es nuestra responsabilidad?" (in the Harvard Business Review, America Latina, April 2008) and "Corporate Social Responsibility: The role of law and markets and the case of developing countries (in the Chicago-Kent Law Review, 2008), "The Role of Multilateral Development Institutions in Fostering Corporate Social Responsibility", published in Development and "Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America", published in the Journal of Corporate Citizenship and a book on the same title, published by the IDB. He is currently writing a book on Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Markets.

Has been a member of the two international panels on water finance led by Michel Camdessus and Angel Gurria. Was the co-chair of the Working Group on Renewable Energy of the World Economic Forum. Has been a lecturer in more than 100 international conferences, on CSR, infrastructure finance, financial markets development, business climate and micro and SME finance.

Mr. Vives, a Spaniard, holds a degree in Chemical Engineering. Also holds a master's degree in Industrial Administration (MBA), and a Ph.D. in Finance (Corporate Finance and Capital Markets), both from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Posted by dcjaya at December 30, 2007 12:47 PM