KINGSTON, Jamaica — Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Julie Katzman will pay an official visit to Jamaica on September 6th and 7th of this week.

According to a release from the IDB, Katzman, who is currently responsible for managing the overall operations of the IDB in Latin America and the Caribbean, will meet with senior Government officials and leaders in the public and private sectors, to discuss Jamaica’s economic and social development and how the IDB can continue to support various initiatives designed to improve lives.

The executive VP is also slated visit a few large-scale private sector developments and projects along with IDB Jamaica Country Representative Therese Turner-Jones and a small contingent of IDB directors and officials.

According to the release Katzman is pioneering an institutional transformation to further the Bank’s emphasis on achieving, measuring and reporting tangible results, and improving access and availability of these results through innovative management and visualisation tools.

She is said to be championing progressive diversity and inclusion and women’s economic empowerment agendas and will reportedly be moderating a high-level IDB gender forum focused on empowering men and women to improve lives, with special emphasis on at risk boys. The closed forum is scheduled for September 6.