Jorge Familiar

Jorge Familiar has been the Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank Group since January 1, 2026. He also serves as the Pension Finance Administrator of the World Bank Group. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Familiar has held multiple senior management roles across various functions within and outside the World Bank Group, gaining extensive experience in the areas of economic development, finance, and corporate governance.

As Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank Group, Mr. Familiar is responsible for the capital markets operations and oversees the annual funding programs of IBRD, IDA and IFC. He leads a global team of capital markets professionals in the prudent management of debt portfolios; asset portfolios managed for institutions in the World Bank Group (WBG) and over 90 external clients, as well as hedging and risk management transactions. He also leads the World Bank Group Treasury’s capacity building, advisory and capital market intermediation and financial solutions services for its clients.

As Pension Finance Administrator of the World Bank Group, he supervises the investment and administration of the WBG pension plans—with assets under management invested in a diverse pool of asset classes including fixed income, public and private equities, real estate and alternatives.

From 2010 through 2025, Mr. Familiar served in the following roles within the WBG:

-Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank, where he led the capital markets operations and annual funding programs of IBRD and IDA.

-Vice President for Finance and WBG Controller, where he had an oversight role for financial operations, financial reporting, and internal control framework for the WBG institutions, and their extensive Trust Fund portfolios.

-Vice President of the World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean Region where, as the first Latin American to lead the region in over 30 years, he was responsible for the World Bank’s engagement and operations with 31 countries, focusing on supporting the productivity and human capital agendas, and the protection of the excluded and most vulnerable populations.

-Vice President and Corporate Secretary of the WBG, where he ensured the integrity of the governance framework of the WBG institutions.

Between 2008 and 2010, he devoted his efforts to financial inclusion serving as Chief Executive Officer of Mexico’s Instituto FONACOT, a public financial institution with over one million clients. He provided strategic leadership to the institution and helped restore it to profitability during the global financial crisis.

Between 2004 to 2008, he was Executive Director and Alternate Executive Director for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain and Venezuela at the Boards of Executive Directors of the WBG institutions.

Mr. Familiar holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in finance from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where he graduated with honors. He began his career at the National Banking and Securities Commission of Mexico (CNBV, in Spanish), where, after holding several positions, he became Vice-chairman of Securities and Derivatives Markets Supervision and served as a member of the institution’s Governing Board. He led the design, negotiation and implementation of several regulatory instruments such as the Securities Market Law, issued by Congress in 2005, as well as the Investment Fund Law issued by Congress in 2001.

Since January 2022, Mr. Familiar has served as a Trustee at the IFRS Foundation, a public interest organization dedicated to developing global accounting and sustainability disclosure standards.