The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, has announced the appointment of Miosotis Rivas Peña as the new director of the Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean.

Rivas Peña took up the appointment at ECLAC Caribbean’s office at the beginning of June. A national of the Dominican Republic, she brings more than 20 years of leadership and policy experience in public administration, gender equality, sustainable development, and economic policy.

Prior to joining ECLAC, Rivas Peña served as Director-General of the National Statistics Office (ONE) of the Dominican Republic from 2020. She was also elected Chair of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC for the 2023–2025 period. Her career spans leadership roles including Executive Director of the Regional Centre for the Promotion of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (CENPROMYPE), National Programme Officer at UN Women, and Technical Secretary for Women in the Council of Ministers for Women’s Affairs of Central America and the Dominican Republic (COMMCA).

Executive Secretary Salazar-Xirinachs expressed his full confidence that Director Rivas Peña will provide the Caribbean office with quality leadership and lead ECLAC’s subregional efforts towards sustainable development and quality economic and social research. 

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ECLAC is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations and promotes sustainable economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean seeks to deepen the understanding of the development challenges facing the Caribbean, and to contribute to solutions by conducting research and analysis and providing sound policy advice and technical assistance to Caribbean governments, focused on growth with equity and recognition of the subregion’s vulnerability.