Dr. Jose Pineda is an economist bringing 24 years of experience in managing USG, UN, and other international development organization economic projects. He is an expert in economics of education, macroeconomics, international economics analysis, and econometrics. He has held multiple senior leadership roles on complex research initiatives and projects. He currently leads the PFM Practice and direct several USAID funded projects including the Economic Growth Support Activity (EGSA) project. He also served technical expert on the Debt Sustainability Risk analysis in Indonesia. He is part of the technical team for the debt restructuring and technical assistance contract for the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as well as the team working on the macroeconomic framework for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Fiscal Rule. Before his position at DevTech, Dr. Pineda was Deputy Director of Research at the Office of Public Policies and Competitiveness at CAF Development Bank of Latin America, and held other senior leadership positions at UNDP, and UNEP in technical areas including education, gender, economic growth, evaluating impact of drivers of economic development, and development of green economy models and indicators. He also brings experience working with high level officials at the aforementioned organizations, liaising with them to ensure their research requests are fully being addressed. Dr. Pineda has over 20 publications in economics and international development, and over 10 years of teaching experience, teaching graduate courses in economics at the Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, BC Canada, the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán in Argentina. Universidad del CEMA, Córdoba, Argentina. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, and the University of Maryland.