Economist, founder, and CEO of the National Development Foundation (FUNDE), a Salvadoran NGO with 30 years of existence, widely recognized nationally and internationally, as well as one of the main references in the country in economic and social matters. He is also the representative of the global network Transparency International in El Salvador. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Center against Corruption and Impunity in Northern Central America (CCINOC), a network of well-known citizen organizations from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador working for transparency and democracy in the region.

He has served for years as a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, in the chairs of Economic Analysis of Latin America and Development Theories. He was also one of the 5 members of the National Development Commission (CND), a presidential commission created by President Calderón Sol, and renewed by subsequent presidents. This commission aimed to consultatively develop a National Plan that would unite the country in a common path of development; the CND also worked, along with the Millennium Account and the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency, the Millennium Fund (FOMILENIO) for El Salvador.

He has carried out consultancy work for the World Bank, the IDB, the governments of Luxembourg and Sweden, as well as for academic institutes and foundations in the United States (Ford Foundation), the Netherlands (Clingendael), and Spain (Real Instituto Elcano and Fundación Carolina). He was a member of the Citizen Oversight Committee for public funds allocated during the pandemic. The Oversight Committee was created by decree of the Legislative Assembly.

He has written several books, as well as articles as a columnist for the national newspaper La Prensa Gráfica. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Economics from José Simeón Cañas University (UCA) in El Salvador, pursued his Doctorate studies in Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and obtained his Doctorate in Development Studies from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.