Steve Brito is a Country Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in the Dominican Republic, where he analyzes economic performance and leads a research agenda focused on development challenges and opportunities for sustainable growth.
Steve Brito has built a career at the intersection of applied economic research and public policy across Latin America and the Caribbean. Before becoming Country Economist for the Dominican Republic, he worked at the Inter-American Development Bank’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., supporting strategic planning and development effectiveness through data-driven evaluations, including the use of Natural Language Processing to diagnose development gaps and inform country strategies. He previously served as Fiscal Economist at Guatemala’s Superintendency of Tax Administration, where he contributed to the rollout and assessment of electronic invoicing systems and helped strengthen revenue mobilization through big data analytics and taxpayer risk profiling.
Earlier in his career, he spent several years in the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund, co-authoring analytical publications such as the Regional Economic Outlook and leading macro-financial analysis to support economic surveillance across the region. He also conducted research on institutional capacity and fiscal policy at the IDB’s Institutions for Development Department.
His publications span macro-financial risks, inflation expectations, economic complexity, and the socio-economic impacts of remittances, civil registration, and access to public services, with studies published through the IMF and IDB. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and has completed advanced training in macro-financial policymaking and Natural Language Processing.
He is fluent in Spanish and English and is dedicated to promoting evidence-based public policy that expands opportunity and improves lives in the region.