Executive Council
Consists of nine Council Members elected annually by the General Assembly. It is responsible for managing and following up the performance of activities and the execution of the Executive Secretariat budget, in addition to outlining CIAT’s institutional strategies.
Composition
Consists of one President and eight Council Members. The President will be the representative of the member country hosting the General Assembly or, if the latter were held in a country from a region other than the Americas, the representative of a country of the Americas that the General Assembly designates. In case of temporary absence or left office, his substitute shall be chosen from among the representatives of member countries that sit in Council. The outgoing President or whoever replaces him in his capacity as representative of his country and the representative of the member country hosting the next General Assembly shall be ex officio Council Members. The remaining six (6) Council Members shall be elected by the Assembly for a two-year term, with only one of them being a representative of a country from a region other than the Americas. Renewal will take place annually by halves.
2026 – 2027
President
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Dominican Republic
Pedro Porfirio Urrutia
Director

Counselors:
Belice – Michelle Longsworth
Director General
Brasil – Adriana Gomes Rêgo
Deputy Special Secretary – RFB
Canadá – Tammy Branch
Deputy Commissioner – CRA
Chile – Jorge Trujillo
Director – SII
Curaçao – Jamila Isenia
Head of the Inspectorate of Taxes
Colombia – Carlos Emilio Betancourt Galeano
Director General – DIAN
Netherlands – Claudia Toet
Director – MF of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Panama – Camilo A. Valdés
Director – DGI