Place: Hall of the Americas, OAS Building - Washington, DC

The President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, will be the main speaker at the Thirty-second Lecture Series of the Americas of the Organization of American States (OAS), on the issue “The Financial Crisis and its Impact on the Americas.”

The event will take place next Monday, January 12, at 3:00 pm at the Hall of the Americas, located in the OAS headquarters in Washington D.C. After his presentation, Mr. Moreno will participate in a question and answer session open to attendees.

Luis Alberto Moreno was elected President of the Inter-American Development Bank during a special meeting of the Bank’s Board of Governors at IDB headquarters in Washington, D.C. on July 27, 2005 and took office on October 1, 2005. Previous to joining the IDB, Moreno served as Colombia’s Ambassador to the United States for 7 years. He was appointed to this position in September 1998 by President Andrés Pastrana and ratified by President Álvaro Uribe in May 2002. During his tenure, Ambassador Moreno oversaw a dramatic improvement in Colombian-U.S. relations.
Moreno obtained bachelor's degrees in Business Administration and Economics from Florida Atlantic University in 1975, and an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management at Thunderbird University in 1977. For his distinguished work in the field of journalism, he was awarded a Neiman Fellowship by Harvard University to undertake studies at that institution from September 1990 to June 1991.

The Thirty-second Lecture Series of the Americas will be webcast live (www.oas.org)