Leonardo Martinez-Diaz

Before entering government, Martinez-Diaz was Fellow and deputy director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. He also served as deputy director of Brookings’ Partnership for the Americas Commission, as an economist at the International Monetary Fund, and as director of the High-Level Commission on the Modernization of World Bank Group Governance.

Martinez-Diaz is author of Globalizing in Hard Times: the Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World (Cornell, 2009). He is co-editor with Ngaire Woods of Networks of Influence? Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order (Oxford, 2009), of Brazil as an Economic Superpower? Understanding Brazil’s Changing Role in the Global Economy with Global Economy and Development Director Lael Brainard (Brookings, 2009), and of Studies of IMF Governance: A Compendium with Ruben Lamdany (IMF, 2009).

Martinez-Diaz specialized in International Political Economy, receiving a M.Phil. degree in 2001 and D.Phil. in 2007 from Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He graduated with honors from Northwestern University in 1999 with degrees in Economics and Political Science and was a 1998 Truman Scholar.

Leonardo Martinez-Diaz (born October 28, 1976) is Global Director of the Sustainable Finance Center at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. At WRI, he heads a team of researchers working to promote the flow of public and private finance to environmentally-sustainable activities, including climate adaptation and mitigation. Martinez-Diaz is author, with Alice C. Hill, of Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption (Oxford, 2019).