Diana Alarcón will review the evaluation and approval of projects, and the implementation of policies, among other issues.
The Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Rogelio Ramírez de la O, appointed Diana Alarcón, former coordinator of Advisors and International Affairs in the Government of Mexico City, as the new representative of Mexico to the World Bank (WB).
With this position, Diana Alarcón will review the evaluation and approval of projects, and the implementation of policies, while working on multilateral coordination with other nations, to name a few cases.
She is an economist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has a master’s degree and doctorate in the same branch from the University of California Riverside.
After her time in the government of Mexico City, she was coordinator of Foreign Policy in the Dialogues for Transformation, a platform for the construction of the public policy agenda for the six-year term of President Claudia Sheinbaum.
In the academic field, she has worked as a researcher and assistant secretary of information at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
On the international level, she has held various positions such as senior economist at the International Labor Office in Geneva, Switzerland; visiting professor of Economics at the American University in Washington, and senior specialist at the Inter-American Institute for Social Development of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.
In addition, at the UN she served as a senior economist in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York and senior specialist in Poverty Assessment and Indicators at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
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