User:Germanmoyer/sandbox

William Lockwood Benet is a Puerto Rican development economist and banker. During 2012 he was appointed member of the US National Foundation Advisory Committee for the SBIR/STTR technology grant programs.US National Foundation Advisory Committee for the SBIR/STTR technology grant programs.

He is a founding member and former Chairman of Grupo Guayacán, the global private equity funds of funds general partner and leader in entrepreneurship development in the Puerto Rico ecosystem. Since 2006 he is an accredited civil society representative at the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. He founded Lockwood Financial Advisors Corp (LFA) in 1993 and Generans Bioventures, its biosciences unit, in 2000. LFA has served as innovation, due diligence, economic and risk management advisor to leading PR private investment infrastructure, banking and biopharma transactions and institutional investors.

He is a graduate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and of Brown University. He has received executive training in macroprudential policy, public financial management, team leadership, biosciences, credit and valuation analysis, multinational and intellectual property taxation at the US Federal Reserve, IMF, Sloan-MIT, Kellogg-Northwestern business schools and the US Internal Revenue Service.

When the structural deficit of the Puerto Rico central government was first disclosed in 2005, he agreed to serve as President of the Government Development Bank], fiscal agent and financial advisor to the PR public sector, despite the fact that the Legislature and Executive branches were controlled by different parties. He had previously served as GDB Vice President, assistant to Presidents Cantero Frau, Berrocal and Rodríguez Ema and at GDB's New York Office from 1989 to 1993. During the 2009 fiscal and economic crisis he returned to GDB to serve as its first Fiscal Agent. His first GDB appointment was at the President's Economic Advisor's office, from 1981 to 1984.

He has been a founder, trustee and advisor of leading PR ecosystem institutions such as the Center for the New Economy; the PR Science, Technology and Research Trust; Fundación Flamboyán and others.