Rodolfo Stucchi is the Director of Development Effectiveness for the Andean Region and Southern Cone at IDB Invest. His areas of expertise include development economics, public policy evaluation, and macroeconomics. Rodolfo has extensive experience in ex-ante and ex-post economic analysis of public and private sector projects, monitoring and evaluation, impact evaluations, macroeconomics, and applied economic research on topics related to productivity, employment, innovation, trade, and access to credit.

Previously, he served as the Head of Monitoring and Evaluation at IDB Invest in Washington, DC. He also worked as a Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank in the United States, Chile, and Bolivia, as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and The World Bank in the United States, and as an Economist for the Government of the Province of Córdoba in Argentina.

Rodolfo has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Macroeconomics, The World Bank Economic Review, and Economia, among others.

He has also been a Visiting Professor at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina), Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo (Bolivia), Universidad de Chile (Chile), and Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen (Germany).

Rodolfo holds a PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) and a BSc in Economics from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina).