Viviana Alva Hart
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Viviana ALVA HART
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Viviana Alva Hart is the IDB Group’s Representative in Barbados since September 2021. The Peruvian national joined the IDB in 2008 as a Rural Development Specialist in Panama and most recently served as Chief of Operations in Argentina. In previous roles as Lead Specialist in the IDB’s Environment, Rural Development and Disaster Risk Management Division, she managed a large operational portfolio focused on agriculture and disaster risk management. Prior to joining the IDB, she spent more than 10 years in the Ministry of Agriculture in Peru, managing agricultural policy and public investment projects and serving as the Executive Director of the Support Services Program for Access to Rural Markets (PROSAAMER).
Ms. Alva Hart has a Master’s in Public Administration from the Instituto Ortega y Gasset at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain and a first degree in Agricultural Sciences and Zootechnics from the National Agrarian University-La Molina in Lima, Peru.
