Antonio Goncalves

Antonio Goncalves

Antonio Gonçalves Savinovich, is an Ecuadorian and Portuguese national who holds an Economics degree from Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil, and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Babson College-Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Gonçalves worked as a credit officer originating corporate and development loans at Banco La Previsora in Guayaquil, Ecuador, from 1984 to 1986. He was an investment projects manager at Merrill Lynch / Transfiec Ecuador SA, from 1986 to 1987. He was later appointed Finance Director for the Compañía de Cervezas Nacionales (CN) SA, a subsidiary of the Bavaria group of Colombia, from 1989 to 1990. He joined the Inter-American Development Bank in 1990, where he was assigned to the Finance Department in August of that year. During Mr. Gonçalves career in the Finance Department he was competitively selected to perform various positions such as; Senior Officer of the Cash Management Section, Coordinator of the Portfolio Management Section, Head of the Loan Portfolio Services (Sovereign and Non-sovereign), and Chief of the IDB's Financial Services Unit at the IDB Treasury. In February 2015, he was selected as the Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank's field office hub in Panama. Since December 2019, Mr. Gonçalves acts as Country Representative for the Inter-American Development Bank group in Paramaribo, Suriname.