Martin Bès

Martin Bès

Mr. Bès joined the IDB in 1993 as a country economist and worked on Bank-financed fiscal reform projects between 1994 and 2000. He served as Alternate Executive Director for Argentina and Haiti at the Boards of the IDB and the IIC between 2000 and 2012. Between 2014 and 2019, as Special Advisor at the Office of the Presidency, he led the IDB Group’s reform of Non-Sovereign Guaranteed operations, special projects and focused on group-wide coordination issues. He was the IDB Group’s Secretary between November 2019 and March 2021 and worked on tax policy and corporate issues until his retirement in March 2024. Before joining the Bank, Mr. Bès worked in economic and financial planning at the Argentine affiliate of Bunge Corporation, a global agribusiness firm. He worked as a consultant in several multilateral institutions in the areas of organizational design, strategic planning and fiscal studies between 2012 and 2014. Mr. Bès obtained a Master’s degree in International Public Policy from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and in Economics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. His undergraduate degree is in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires.