Biography Microinsurance Conference 2008

Luiz Ros, Inter-American Development Bank, USA

Luiz Ros was appointed Manager for the Opportunities for the Majority (OM) Sector Office in January 2008, with responsibility for promoting and coordinating activities corresponding to the OM initiative. He joined the IDB in 2007, as Principal Business Development Specialist for the OM Office.

Before entering the Bank, Ros was the Global Manager for Markets and Sustainable Enterprise at the World Resources Institute (WRI), where he built partnerships with venture capitalists, large corporations, business schools, and enterprise development institutions in key emerging economies to support sustainable investment that brought opportunities to underserved sectors of the population. He was an advisor to the DuPont company’s presidency for Latin America, which was simultaneously the vice presidency of emerging markets growth.

Ros has served as a member of the strategic board for VC III Stratus Investment Fund, based in São Paulo, Brazil, that supports small, sustainable businesses. He also served as a member of International Finance Corporation’s advisory panel under the Sustainable Finance Initiative and the Latin America Financial Initiative Advisory Group of the United Nations Environmental Programme. Ros lectured at the Harvard Business School on private sector strategies to serve low-income markets in Latin America.

Prior to joining the WRI, Ros was the director of the National Environmental Fund at the Ministry of Environment in Brazil, where he was in charge of funding more than 100 projects, including those involving local communities and indigenous peoples in the Amazon region. He managed World Bank managing projects in Brazil financed by the Global Environmental Facility.

Ros has undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics and a Master of Science in International Relations and Environmental Economics from the University of Brasilia, Brazil. He was a visiting scholar at the state university of New York in Syracuse.

Ros has been recently selected among the top six business leaders by Época Negócios, a leading business magazine in Brazil.