Maria-Elena Aguero is the current Secretary General of Club de Madrid and was formerly a trade policy officer at the U.S. Department of Treasury and research assistant at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. She has been part of the professional staff of the Interamerican Development Bank, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program, working extensively in these organizations’ Washington, Uruguay, Geneva, Brussels and Paris offices, and in their field offices.