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Luis Cosenza (PhD, University of Notre Dame) will return to the Institute in fall 2009 as the Hewlett Visiting Fellow for public policy, helping to advance Kellogg’s activities in that area. Last fall, he organized three high-level roundtables on public policy in Central America. This year, he will organize several public events and pursue his own research.

Cosenza has had a distinguished career in public service. He served as campaign manager for Ricardo Maduro when Maduro won the presidency of Honduras in 2001 and as the minister of the presidency in the Maduro administration, responsible for coordinating the day-to-day activities of the government and working with multilateral and bilateral donors. With 16 years of experience with development banks in Latin America and Africa, he has served as executive director for Central America and Belize on the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and worked with the World Bank. Cosenza began his career with the Honduran state-owned power utility, where he rose to CEO.