News
31 July 2019

Virginia Brandon is new World Bank representative for Chile

Region:
Americas

Virginia Brandon has been named as the new World Bank representative in Chile. She will replace Gaston Blanco, who held the position for the past three years. 

Brandon has experience in Latin America, specifically in Caribbean countries, where she worked to strengthen operations and projects. She began her career at the World Bank in 2010 as an advisor to the US executive director and later as an advisor for private-sector and financial development. Before her current appointment, she was the senior operations officer for the World Bank Group’s Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice  in Washington, D.C.

Before joining the World Bank, Brandon was an economist at the Office of African Nations of the US Department of the Treasury and a researcher specializing in business competitiveness.

You might also like


Perspective
18 June 2026

Tanzania SGR: Multi-sourced from Mwanza

Tanzania’s latest standard gauge railway financing shows that African transport corridors can access global liquidity. But only when sovereign risk, export credit, MDB...

Perspective
22 June 2026

Uxolo at Global 26: Getting with the programme

Development finance lenders are continuing to innovate, despite a less promising backdrop. But making those innovations stick, as speakers at Uxolo's Global 2026 suggest, will...