PPP Unit Chief, Inter-American Development Bank
He was selected as part of the IDB Young Professional Program in 2002 when he was assigned to the Infrastructure Division for the Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) where he worked on Energy and Transportation projects as a regulatory specialist.
From 2007 to 2010 he worked in the Energy Division of the IADB developing energy projects. In 2011 Mr. Astesiano was appointed Operations Advisor of the Infrastructure and Environment Department (INE) where he was in charge of operations quality control and portfolio management, the Private-Public Partnership (PPP) coordinator.
From September 2014 to August 2017 Mr. Astesiano worked as the senior operational advisor for the vice-president for countries, supervising the delivery of the operational program of the IDB, lead.
In 2017, Mr. Astesiano was tasked with the creation of the Public Private Partnership Single Window of the IDB Group with the mission to coordinate all PPP interventions of the IDB Group and to lead the PPP advisory services both for institutional capacity and PPP project preparation for LAC. The PPP Team of the IADB has successfully structured projects with investment mobilization of approximately USD 4 Billion and is currently structuring more than 40 projects with a potential mobilization of approximately USD 9 Billion in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Gastón Astesiano has a law degree from the Universidad Católica Argentina, a master in Law (LLM) and a master in Public Administration (MPA), Program in Economic Policy Management with concentration in International Energy Management and Policy, from Columbia University.
