Luis Miguel Castilla

Luis Miguel Castilla trained as an economist at McGill and Johns Hopkins, where he completed a master’s degree and doctorate. Before entering Peru’s cabinet, he worked in multilateral development finance and held posts including deputy finance minister and chief of staff at the economy ministry. He served as minister of economy and finance from July 2011 to September 2014 under President Ollanta Humala. ^{1, 2}

Castilla became ambassador to the United States in 2015. At the opening of the Smithsonian’s Perú: Pachamama Folklife Festival on 24 June 2015, he joined the Paucartambo Contradanza troupe and Peru’s tourism minister in the procession at the National Museum of the American Indian. ^{1, 3}

After leaving the embassy, Castilla joined the Atlantic Council’s Latin America programme in September 2016, with a brief covering trade, APEC, China–Latin America relations, and other regional issues. He subsequently headed strategic planning and development effectiveness at the Inter-American Development Bank. His later academic work includes a visiting senior fellowship at the London School of Economics focused on fiscal policy, development, risk, and infrastructure. ^{2, 4, 5}