Dr. Edilberto Segura
Chief Economist, Partner, Chairman of The Bleyzer Foundation
Dr. Edi Segura is a Partner and Chief Economist at SigmaBleyzer and the Chairman of the Board of The Bleyzer Foundation. He joined the company in 1998.
Dr. Segura joined The World Bank in 1972 and served in senior positions dealing with 35 different countries until 1998. His many positions with The World Bank included Division Chief, Industrial Development and Finance Division, Europe, Middle East and North Africa Region; Director, Country Department II, Latin America and Caribbean Region; and Chief of World Bank Mission in Ukraine.
During Dr. Segura’s tenure in Kiev, The World Bank approved total lending/guarantees of about $1.6 billion for ten operations. Before his assignment in Ukraine, Dr. Segura was responsible for all World Bank operations in Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The Department's portfolio under his supervision included 90 operations, with a loan amount of $12 billion.
Before joining The World Bank, Dr. Segura was a Partner and Vice President of Bailey, Tondu, Warwick and Co, a New York investment bank with operations in the US, Latin America and Asia.
Dr. Segura is currently a Professor of Economics at the Kiev School of Economics. For five years, he was a Visiting Professor at the Said School of Business at Oxford University. He also taught Corporate Finance for the MBA Program at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Segura has a Masters in Business Administration from Stanford University, a Master of Arts in Economics and a Doctorate in Philosophy, majoring in Finance and minoring in Economic Development, from Columbia University. He also attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.