Juan Carlos Iturregui

Foundation for InterAmerican Development

President

Mr. Iturregui leads FIAD, a non-profit entity focused on promoting more private sector development and investments in the Caribbean and Latin America. FIAD believes that public sector investments and assistance provided annually by multilateral organizations, such as the IDB and World Bank Groups, can and should be maximized and multiplied through strong participation by the private sector, particularly in areas such as infrastructure, modernization of the state and capacity building at all governmental levels.

Mr. Iturregui earned his law degree in 1990, and has specialized ever since in business, regulatory and public policy issues affecting the Americas. He works closely with decision makers on Capitol Hill and the Executive Branch and in various Latin American countries in promoting closer hemispheric links and public-private sector partnerships.

Prior to joining FIAD on a full time basis, Mr. Iturregui worked as a Director for several years at one of Washington’s best regarded and most respected public and corporate affairs firms, Quinn Gillespie & Associates. As part of the senior professional team, Mr. Iturregui worked with and alongside a bipartisan group of professionals, advocating for public policy positions and initiatives on behalf of various entities, including Fortune 500 corporations, non-profits and local governments.

Before that, Mr. Iturregui served as Senior Director of Governmental Affairs at two major international law firms, where he assisted his colleagues in establishing full service governmental relations and Latin American practices. He coordinated various internal cross selling projects to maximize the firms’ expertise in several practice areas focusing, most particularly, on initiatives and projects in the trade, tax, finance, and infrastructure development sectors, along with various appropriations issues.

Mr. Iturregui has held various other trade, legislative, and legal positions, including Executive Director of Puerto Rico’s Regional Trade Office in Santiago, Chile. He established that new office in 1995 charged with promoting trade, investments and business opportunities between Puerto Rico and the Mercosur/Southern Cone countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay).

He also served as Legislative Counsel in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Managing Attorney for a non-profit national legal services corporation created by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1988 (known as “CLINIC”). In 1987, after a competitive nationwide search, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus institute selected Mr. Iturregui as one of twelve promising college graduates to participate in the first ever Latino Leaders Opportunity Fellowship. That year, he served in the office of the Chairman and in the White House Office of Public Liaison.