[VIRTUAL] Alumni Conversations: Raul Martinez-Ostos '99, Chairman of the Board and Country Head for Mexico at Barclays

Raul Martinez-Ostos '99, '97 MA

Managing Director, Country Head for Mexico

Barclays

Raul Martinez-Ostos is Chairman of the Board and Country Head for Mexico at Barclays since 2012. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing all of the firm’s business activities and regulatory issues in Mexico.

Mr. Martinez-Ostos has an investment banking and capital markets career in the financial industry that spans more than 20 years, including tenures in both the public and private sectors in Mexico. He joined Barclays in 2012 from Deutsche Bank, where he was most recently Head of Capital Markets and Treasury Solutions for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean in New York. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2003, Mr. Martinez-Ostos held various positions at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico from 1999 to 2003; including spokesman for the Ministry of Finance under Secretary Francisco Gil Díaz, chief of staff of the Under Secretary Agustín Carstens and Deputy General Director of Financial Planning.

Raul began his career at the Economic Research Department at Banco de Mexico from 1993 -1996. He later worked at Farallon Capital Management, a hedge fund that specializes in risk-arbitrage, real state, private equity and distressed securities.