Mauricio Claver-Carone

Mauricio Claver-Carone is an American attorney and government official. He is known for advocating a hardline policy against Cuba and influencing the Trump administration's policy towards Venezuela.[1]

Mauricio Claver-Carone
Personal details
BornFlorida, U.S.
EducationRollins College (BA)
Catholic University (JD)
Georgetown University (LLM)

Early life and education

Claver-Carone was born in Florida and raised in Madrid, Spain.[2] Claver-Carone earned his B.A. degree magna cum laude from Rollins College, Juris Doctor cum laude from Catholic University of America, and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the Georgetown University Law Center.[3]

Career

He was the founder and host of the bilingual foreign policy show "From Washington Al Mundo" on Sirius-XM's Cristina Radio (Channel 146), led by the Emmy-award winning journalist and media personality, Cristina Saralegui.[4] Poder Magazine recognized him as one of 20 entrepreneurs, executives, leaders and artists under 40 who are shaping the future of the U.S. and the world.[5]

Claver-Carone has written regularly for HuffPost,[6] and has been published in The Wall Street Journal,[7] The New York Times, and World Affairs.[8] He has also published in academic journals, including the Georgetown Journal of International Law and the Yale Journal of International Affairs.

Claver-Carone has provided congressional testimony before the Committees on Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary and Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives. He also served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Columbus School of Law and as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School.

Government positions

Claver-Carone served as the U.S. Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the role, he represented the United States, as the largest shareholder, on the IMF's Executive Board. During his tenure, Claver-Carone led U.S. support for the IMF's $57 billion stand-by loan, the largest in its history, for Argentina. He was previously Senior Advisor for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Earlier in his career, he had served as an Attorney-Advisor for the United States Department of the Treasury, where he provided counsel on banking laws and securitizations.

In 2016, Claver-Carone was named a member of the Donald Trump transition team. On September 1, 2018, he was appointed as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the United States National Security Council's Western Hemisphere Affairs directorate.[9][10][11]

On June 16, 2020, Trump nominated Claver-Carone to serve as President of the Inter-American Development Bank.[12][13][14]

Cuba policy

Claver-Carone is a known advocate of the policy positions that the United States has taken against the Cuban government. He has written numerous columns in support of foreign policy towards Cuba, particularly the United States embargo against Cuba, and in favor of a transition on the island towards democracy, free markets and the rule of law.

He has also been a prominent critic of the current government of Venezuela. He has taken part in various televised debates on policy towards the Western Hemisphere and Cuba–United States relations.

Claver-Carone was Executive Director of Cuba Democracy Advocates. In an independent capacity, he also served on the Board of Directors of the US-Cuba Democracy PAC, which purports to be the largest, single foreign-policy political action committee in the United States, and the largest Hispanic political action committee in history. He was editor of the blog Capitol Hill Cubans.

References
  1. Waldron, Travis (January 21, 2020). "The Man (And The Mission) Behind Trump's Clash With Venezuela". HuffPost. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  2. Habib, Yamily (September 19, 2018). "Mauricio Claver-Carone, the new Latino on Trump's team". AL DÍA News. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  3. "Mauricio Claver-Carone". Quarterly Americas. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  4. "From Washington Al Mundo". Cristina Radio. Archived from the original on August 14, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  5. Lewis, Bridget. "Claver-Carone to be Diversity Lecture Series speaker". University of Texas Arlington. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  6. "Mauricio Claver-Carone". The Huffington Post. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  7. Claver-Carone, Mauricio (June 23, 2015). "When Helping 'the Cuban People' Means Bankrolling the Castros". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  8. "Mauricio Claver-Carone". World Affairs Journal. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  9. Caputo, Marc (August 31, 2018). "Trump packs foreign policy team with Cuba hardliners from Florida". Politico. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  10. Ordoñez, Franco (August 30, 2018). "Cuba hardliner to be elevated to key White House post on Latin America". McClatchyDC. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  11. "U.S. National Security Council's Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs visits Guatemala". U.S. Embassy in Guatemala. August 20, 2019. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
  12. Kiernan, Paul; Forero, Juan (June 16, 2020). "U.S. Plans to Nominate White House Official to Lead Latin America's Main Development Bank". WSJ. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  13. Shalal, Andrea; Campos, Rodrigo (June 16, 2020). "U.S. to nominate Trump's top Latin America adviser to lead IDB". U.S. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  14. Goodman, Joshua (June 16, 2020). "Testing tradition, Trump taps US official to lead Latin bank". Associated Press. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
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