Leonardo Martinez-Diaz

Who is Leonardo Martinez-Diaz?

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Environment in the United States Department of the Treasury. Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere at the United States Department of the Treasury and Director of the Office of Policy in the United States Agency for International Development.

Before entering government, he was Fellow and Deputy Director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. He also served as Deputy Director of Brookings’ Partnership for the Americas Commission, as an Economist at the International Monetary Fund, and as Director of the High-Level Commission on the Modernization of World Bank Group Governance.

Before joining Brookings, Martinez-Diaz was Research Associate with the Global Economic Governance Program at Oxford University, where he focused on the politics of banking reform in developing countries and the role of the IMF in financial crisis-management. Mr. Martinez-Diaz, a Luce Fellow in Indonesia, worked as an academic and consultant.