Yira Mascaró
Yira Mascaró is the manager for the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region of finance, competitiveness and innovation practice, which covers a broad portfolio of loans and analytical work. Previously, she was global manager of financial stability and integrity in the same practice. Yira holds a Ph.D. in financial economics and a master’s degree in economics and has more than 20 years of direct experience in the LAC, Africa and Central Asia regions, including in fieldwork based in Nairobi, Kenya as a sector leader for the financial sectors. and private. Before joining the World Bank, she briefly worked in the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank, at a state mortgage financial institution, and at a university in the Dominican Republic, her native country. She has covered a wide range of financial and private sector topics, in particular, bank resolution, crisis management and general financial stability (including practical advice during various financial crises), prudential regulation (including green and fintech aspects); capital markets; infrastructure financing and green financing; management of fiscal/public and central bank debt; competitiveness, access to financing and financial infrastructure and public banking. Some of her publications are on bank resolution and financial safety nets, the performance of state banks, and the development aspects of remittances and access to finance. capital markets; infrastructure financing and green financing; management of fiscal/public and central bank debt; competitiveness, access to financing and financial infrastructure and public banking. Some of her publications are on bank resolution and financial safety nets, the performance of state banks, and the development aspects of remittances and access to finance. capital markets; infrastructure financing and green financing; management of fiscal/public and central bank debt; competitiveness, access to financing and financial infrastructure and public banking. Some of her publications are on bank resolution and financial safety nets, the performance of state banks, and the development aspects of remittances and access to finance.