Rodolfo Stucchi is a development economist with almost 20 years at the IDB Group, in both its public and private sector arms. His work combines applied economic research with operational experience across the full cycle of development finance: project preparation; negotiation with federal, state and municipal governments; portfolio management; institutional, sector and country strategy; and monitoring, evaluation and development effectiveness.

He is currently Chief of Operations for Brazil at the IDB, leading the preparation, negotiation and management of a portfolio of more than USD 12 billion in loans and guarantees and USD 130 million in technical cooperation.

As Director of Development Impact at IDB Invest, he led the implementation of the end-to-end Impact Management Framework and designed the current supervision system, as well as the Sustainable Portfolio Approach, which balances development impact and financial returns across the portfolio. He co-led two pillars of the IDB Group Institutional Strategy 2024–2030 and was a permanent member of the IDB Lab Investment Committee for eight years. Earlier, as country economist in Bolivia, he led the preparation of the IDB Group Country Strategy and ran the semi-annual debt sustainability analysis.

His research has been published in the Journal of Development Economics, The World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Development Studies and the Journal of Macroeconomics, among others, and he has co-edited three books, including Markets for Development (IDB, 2025) and What Works to Foster Productive Sector Development (IDB, 2024). He has taught policy evaluation and development economics in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Germany, and holds a PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, and a BSc in Economics from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina.

Focus areas: economic growth, development finance, public finance, private sector development, and policy evaluation.

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