Carlos León is an economic consultant in the Inter-American Development Bank’s Fiscal and Municipal Management Division in Washington, DC. He focuses on public-private partnerships, fiscal risks, financial instruments, and trust funds for the public sector. Previously, León worked as assistant manager of sub-national public debt at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico. He also worked in the Public Debt Department at the Grupo Financiero Banorte and in the Departments of Economic Research of CEMEX-Mexico and the Central Bank of Mexico at Monterrey. He studied economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.