Osmel Manzano is Regional Economic Advisor for the Country Department for the Andean Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Adjunct Professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and Professorial Lecturer at the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Previously, he was the Regional Economic Advisor for Belize, Central America, Haiti, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic. Before joining the IADB, he was Assistant Director and Coordinator of the Research Program at the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). He was also an Adjunct Professor at Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (UCAB), the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown, and IESA Business School. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Osmel works on development challenges, with an emphasis on the links between natural resources, energy, and growth. He also teaches on economic development in Latin America and the political economy of natural resources.