Ernesto Aguirre
Manager
Banking Regulation
Financial Sector Operations and Policy Department
World Bank

Mr. Ernesto Aguirre is currently the Program Manager of the Banking and Financial Restructuring Program of the Financial Sector Operations and Policy Department at the World Bank. Previously, Mr. Aguirre was the Superintendent of Banks of the Republic of Colombia, an independent supervisory agency in charge of the regulation and supervision of banks, non-banking financial institutions, pension funds, and insurance institutions in the country. He also served as Chief International Negotiator in the areas of economic and financial matters of the Republic of Colombia and as Senior Counsel of the Legal Department at the International Monetary Fund where he was in charge of providing technical assistance to more than 30 countries on legal and regulatory aspects related to their banking systems' organization, banking supervision and regulation, and bank restructuring. Mr. Aguirre received his Doctor in Law from the University Externado de Colombia, D.E.A. in Economic Law from Universite de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, and Master in Financial Law from the London School of Economics. Mr. Aguirre is a Ph. D candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics.