Juan Pablo Bonilla is the manager of the Inter-American Development Bank’s Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector (CSD). Previously, he served as chief of staff to the executive vice president of the IDB. Dr. Bonilla has worked on environmental sustainability, climate change, and energy for more than 20 years, leading the IDB’s Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initiative, a major strategic step for integrating climate change and sustainability as a priority for the bank.

Before joining the IDB, he worked as senior specialist at the World Bank, and was a member of the United Nation’s CDM Executive Board. In Colombia, after serving as the executive director of a new think tank, Fundesarrollo, and as national environmental manager of ANDI, Dr. Bonilla launched new initiatives such as the National Climate Change Policy and the National Biotechnology Policy as principal advisor to the country’s vice president. Dr. Bonilla served as deputy minister of environment, and acting minister of environment, Housing and Territorial Development.

Dr. Bonilla obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, a Master of Science in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental and Energy Management from George Washington University.