Ana Inés Basco

Ana Inés Basco

Ana Basco is the Director of the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), an institution in which she has worked for 16 years leading different projects related to integration, gender equality and new technologies. With more than 20 years of professional experience, she has coordinated the publication of a large number of IDB studies on trade, industry 4.0, and gender gaps. She has led projects on integration and trade; and has formed strategic alliances with multiple institutions of great international prestige in Latin America, the United States and Europe. At INTAL, she was previously appointed as a specialist in Regional Integration and a consultant in the IDB's Institutional Capacity of the State division. Before joining the IDB, she worked as a consultant for both the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Transportation as well as in civil society organizations. Ana Basco is an Economist and a Political Science graduate from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She has a master's degree in Regional Economic Integration from the International University of Andalucía and a postgraduate degree in International Business Management from Georgetown University.