Lea Giménez

Lea Raquel Giménez Duarte (born March 28, 1981)[1] is a Paraguayan economist and the former finance minister of Paraguay. She was the first woman to hold the position and the youngest person to ever hold the position of finance minister in Latin America.[2][3]

Giménez in 2017

Education

Giménez completed her secondary education in the United States. She earned a BA from Emporia State University, a Master's Degree from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. from Lehigh University, all in economics. She also completed the Executive Program on Macro Financial Policy in Emerging Markets at Columbia University and the Executive Program on the Digital Transformation of Government: Policy Innovation and Public Service at the University of Harvard. Her doctoral dissertation received the "Elizabeth B. Stout Dissertation Award" for making an unusually significant and original contribution to economics.[4]

Career

Giménez was an economist in the World Bank's Global Poverty and Macro-Taxation Practices serving countries in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Her work at the international level focused on the development and implementation of policies and strategies for poverty reduction, the promotion of inclusive economic growth, the institutional strengthening of public entities, the creation of institutional capacities, the promotion of evidence-based policies, and the improvement of coordination among multilateral organizations to maximize the impact of their efforts.[5] She also served as an adjunct professor at Lehigh University.

She chaired the Technical Economic Tax Commission of Paraguay, the Excellence Fund for Education of Paraguay, and the Commission of the National Strategy for Financial Inclusion. Between 2017 and 2018, she chaired the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank. Previously, she served as Vice-Minister of Economy of the Paraguayan Ministry of Finance, becoming the first woman in Paraguay to hold that position.[6]

During the presidency of Horacio Cartes, she served as Paraguay's Minister of Finance, becoming the first woman to hold this position in the history of Paraguay.

In 2017, América Economía magazine described Lea Giménez as the Paraguayan promise, "a symbol of the Paraguayan economic boom: incipient, novel and promising."[7]

Since February 2019, she is the Head of the Division of Innovation in Citizen Services (ICS) of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Publications

Research

Books

  • Giménez, Lea, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán and Daniel Valderrama. 2015. Shared Prosperity in Colombia, in Shared Prosperity and Poverty Eradication in Latin America and the Caribbean (eds. Ed. Cord, Louise, Maria Eugenia Genoni, and Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán), pp. 99–134, Washington, D.C.: Banco Mundial.
  • Giménez, Lea and Carmen Marín. 2018. Retos y Oportunidades del Sistema de Jubilaciones y Pensiones del Paraguay en Sistema Financiero Paraguayo. Construyendo sobre sólidos fundamentos paraguayos. Banco Central del Paraguay, pp. 114–147.

Policy notes and reports

References

  1. "Conoce a tu Candidato - Justicia Electoral". candidaturas.tsje.gov.py (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-31.
  2. "¿Cuál es el perfil de los que llegan a ser ministros de Economía en América Latina?". BBC News Mundo. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  3. Lea Giménez juró como nueva ministra de Hacienda,TV Presidencia Paraguay 2017.
  4. Doctoral candidates welcomed into “community of scholars” (en inglés), Universidad de Lehigh, 20 de mayo 2013.
  5. World Bank Blogs (en inglés), Banco Mundial.
  6. Making History in Paraguay (en inglés),Universidad de Lehigh, 27 de Octubre 2016.
  7. "Lea Giménez, la promesa paraguaya". América Economía. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
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