Meet the Guest: Hugo Noé Pino

Hugo Noé Pino is a Honduran economist and former president of the Central Bank and Minister of Finance in Honduras. Pino has also held diplomatic functions as his country’s ambassador to the United Nations and to the United States. He was executive director for Central America on the board of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and principal advisor to the director for Central America at the World Bank. He served as executive director and economist for Honduras of the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies, ICEFI.

In the academic field, Pino has served as a university professor and director of the Central American Postgraduate Program in Economics at the Autonomous University of Honduras and coordinator of the UNITEC Doctorate in Economics and Business. He has published several articles and edited books on economic policy issues both in Honduras and abroad. He was president of the Honduran Council of Economists and the Federation of University Students of Honduras. He received the José Cecilio del Valle award for professional career from the Honduran Council of Economists in 2018. He currently works as a consultant. He graduated and obtained his master’s degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Honduras and has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.