Kim ***** provides leadership on strategic and ***** management that support institutional strengthening and on investment decision-making process, with a particular focus on emerging markets. The latter includes the identification and analysis of embedded options and strategies for dealing with economic, ***** and political risks. He brings a solid understanding of ***** economics combined with creativity in seeking solutions to specific problems when working in situation where risks are poorly understood. His experience includes ***** system development and regulation, legal and economic reforms, pension reform, and the ***** economic and managerial challenges facing the establishment and monitoring of microfinance and microinsurance institutions. He has nearly three decades of academic and practical experience, which includes eighteen years of senior level technical leadership at the Inter-American Development Bank and five years of private commercial banking focused on Latin America. At the IDB, he held prominent positions including Principal ***** Economist, where his research and project design/implementation focused on developing ***** markets, institutions, and regulatory frameworks throughout Latin America and the Caribbean and Principal Country Economist (for Peru and Colombia). Kim has been associated with teaching and research at first-tier American and European universities, including the Wharton School, INSEAD, Johns Hopkins and Colorado State University. He has successfully executed high-level technical consulting assignments including regulatory strengthening, insurance and microinsurance and ***** strategies for dealing with natural disasters. Recent clients include the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Micro Insurance Academy (India). Kim’s has authored/edited three books published by the Inter-American Development Bank dealing with policy risk, ***** disclosure and ***** risk management in emerging markets, as well as being the principal author of the IDB ***** strategy. He has published papers in leading, peer-reviewed academic journals. He has also authored articles in insurance trade publications along with numerous working papers and presentations. Kim obtained his PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Economics from Brigham Young University. He is fluent in English and Spanish.