Alejandro Escobar
Lead Investment Officer
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IDB LAB
Alejandro is an Agricultural Economist and Systems Analyst by training and has worked for 25 years in agricultural development and agribusiness investment. He is currently Lead Investment Officer with the IDB Lab, part of the Inter-American Development Bank. He is currently responsible for the portfolio of projects and investments in AgTech, sustainable agriculture, and Agrifinance throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to that he worked at Du Pont in the Global Supply Chain group of Tyvek, working in the development of demand planning and financial forecasting tools. Earlier in his career Alejandro was with Sarona Global Investment Funds, based in Bolivia and Peru, looking at corporate agri-investments in these two countries. He is based in Washington DC.