Biography
Before becoming the Country Manager for Albania, Emanuel Salinas held the position of the Country Manager for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro in the Europe and Central Asia region of the World Bank.
Before that, Emanuel oversaw the World Bank’s programs and teams covering macroeconomics and fiscal management, financial sector development, governance, poverty reduction, trade and competitiveness in South Asia, with focus on Sri Lanka and Maldives. Previously, Emanuel led the World Bank’s portfolio of financial and private sector development projects across Central Asia, based in Kazakhstan.
Emanuel joined the World Bank in 2005 as a Young Professional and subsequently became a Financial Economist leading projects on access to finance, financial stability, investment climate, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, trade, innovation and business environment reform in more than 15 countries in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Emanuel was subsequently a Senior Investment Officer at the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency.
Before joining the World Bank, Emanuel had more than ten years of experience in the private sector. Most recently, Emanuel worked with Standard & Poor’s, where he was European Head of Structured Finance Surveillance, managing a portfolio of USD 150 billion of global securities. Previously, Emanuel was Associate Director of Risk Management Advisory Services for banks in Scandinavia and Southern Europe;European Manager of Quantitative Analytics;and Lead Analyst of Financial Institutions for Latin America. Emanuel started his career as financial analyst at Mercedes Benz Financial Services and Procter & Gamble.
Emanuel holds a Masters degree in Management and Economic Development from London School of Economics and Political Science, a Masters degree on International Banking and Finance, a Bachelors degree on Finance from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and executive education from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.