Alvaro Lario
Alvaro Lario is president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development. He has more than 20 years’ experience in academia, private-sector asset management, the World Bank Group and the United Nations, including as IFAD’s associate vice-president of financial operations. Under his stewardship, IFAD became the first UN fund to enter capital markets and obtain a credit rating, enabling IFAD to expand resource mobilisation efforts to the private sector. Before joining IFAD in 2018, he was the treasury capital markets lead and principal portfolio officer at the International Finance Corporation.
