Central Banking Autumn Meetings

Valda Frederica Henry is the Deputy Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. She is VF Inc.’s former Chief Executive Officer and Principal Trainer. She formerly served as a Senior Investment Officer at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank and played an instrumental role in the restructuring of the Investment Unit and the development of the Investment Management Framework of the Bank. She has lectured in, among other subjects, Human Resource Management and Accounting and has extensive experience in organisational reviews, job analyses and job descriptions working with companies in the Caribbean and served as the Coordinator of the Administrative Reform Program of the Commonwealth of Dominica. She has served as a Mentor for Executive and Middle Managers in many sectors including banking, hospitality and utility. Valda is also a Global Human Resources and Organizational Development Expert who excels at collaboration, with very strong interpersonal, communications, leadership and decision-making skills. She has developed and led numerous multi-year personal and professional development programs for youth in Dominica as well as individuals and businesses throughout the Caribbean. She hosted a weekly radio and twice- monthly television programs on which she discussed solutions to challenges faced by businesses in the region. She wrote a Column, “Business and Life,” for the online newspaper, “Dominica News Online. Valda holds formal qualifications in Financial Analysis and Planning, Governance and Business Management. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst, holds a PhD in Industrial Relations & Business, Masters of Business Administration, Bachelors in Management and Bachelors in Law. She is a Certified Global Professional in Human Resources, Society for Human Resource Management, Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) and an Accredited Director. She is also a Certified ProNet Trainer and a Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Practitioner and a Certified “Train the Trainer” for InfoDev and the Women Innovators Network in the Caribbean (WINC).

Carlos Cantú joined the BIS in the spring of 2016. He obtained his MA and PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before obtaining his PhD, he worked for the Bank of Mexico in the Economic Research Department. He is part of the secretariat of the BIS Consultative Group on Innovation and the Digital Economy Technical Task Force on CBDCs.

Elisa Vilorio de Painter holds a PhD in Economics from Florida International University (FIU). She holds a Master of Science in Finance and a Postgraduate degree in Risk Management from the Instituit D'administration d'enterprise (IAE) Aix en Provence in France, and is a Magna Cum Laude Industrial Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM). She is also a former scholar of the prestigious Fulbright Program of the United States Embassy and the scholarship program of the French Embassy.

She has worked at the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic since 2007, and currently holds the position of Advisor to the Governor. She began her career in the Treasury Department where she held the positions of Technical Consultant, Deputy Director of International Reserves Management, Head of the Risk and Financial Analysis Division, and Investment Manager of the International Reserves portfolio. For more than a decade, she was responsible for the design and execution of the investment strategy of the International Reserves portfolio, quantitative analysis, risk management, and strategic asset allocation. In turn, she participated in official advisory missions to other Central Banks within the Reserves Advisory Management Program (RAMP) of the World Bank.

His areas of professional expertise are: Financial Economics, International Economics, Applied Econometrics and Finance. He has presented his research on macroeconomics at different annual meetings of the American Economic Association (AEA), the Southern Economic Association (SEA), the Midwest Economic Association (MEA), the Eastern Economic Association (EEA), the International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES) and the International Trade and Finance Association (ITFA). He has also published in various Journals related to the active management of an International Reserves portfolio, hedging strategies using interest rate futures and the foreign exchange derivatives market.

She has been an undergraduate professor and researcher at Florida International University (FIU). She also taught in the Master's in Financial Management and MBA in Risk and Treasury Management at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.