Prior to becoming a professor at Columbia University and co-founding the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, he served as Colombia’s finance minister and the head of its Central Bank, as well as the United Nations Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs.
This page offers several documents and links that provide additional insight into his ideas and strategies on leading a more effective World Bank, as well as formalize the support he has received from so many colleagues, professionals and development experts in the form of a petition that was put together by the Committee to Elect Jose Antonio Ocampo.