Carlos Pimentel, the lawyer who is the executive director of the civic watchdog group, Citizen Participation (Participacion Ciudadana), is President-elect Luis Abinader’s choice to head the Public Procurement Agency (Contrataciones Públicas). Pimentel had spearheaded much of the private investigations into corruption in procurement under the state of emergency and before.
Abinader tweeted the announcement on Monday, 20 July 2020. The President-elect has been making the announcements of his choices for key positions in his government using Twitter.
Carlos Pimentel is also a professor of ethics at the Technological Institute of the Americas (ITLA). He is a visiting professor at the Pontificical Madre y Maestra Catholic University (PUCMM) and the Center for Governance and Social Management (CEGES) at the Santo Domingo Technology Institute (INTEC).
He is a graduate from the Santo Domingo Autonomous University (UASD) law school. He specialized in transparency and combatting corruption at the Law School of Chile University. He has a masters in defense and national security from the School of Graduates of High Strategic Studies (EGAEE) of the Dominican military. He is also is a fellow of the Organization of American States’ Open Government in the Americas program. He has a master’s degree in Electoral Law and Electoral Procedure from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), with his graduation pending the presentation of his thesis.
Pimentel has experience in public management. He is an expert in areas of open government, public service, public contracting, government policies, standards and legislative proposals for public administration, monitoring and implementation of public management policies and state reform.
He has worked in Dominican civil society organizations. He has been part of the Expert Committee for Follow-up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption of the Organization of American States (OAS).
He was the research expert for the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) of the OAS Open Government Alliance.
As head of Participación Ciudadana, that entity took the lead in the strong struggles of civil society and part of the political opposition, that resulted in the Green March against Corruption and Impunity.
Participación Ciudadana is accredited as the national chapter of Transparency International, an organization that operates in more than 100 countries around the world in the fight against corruption.
Other recent appointments to the Abinader cabinet are, in order of their announcement:
Ethics and corruption Office director: Milagros Ortiz Bosch
Minister of the Presidency: Lisandro Macarrulla
Foreign Relations Minister: Roberto Álvarez Gil
Education Minister: Roberto Furcal
Spokesperson for the Presidency: Milagros Germán
Governor of the Central Bank: Hector Valdez Albizu
Economy & Planning Minister: Miguel Ceara Hatton
Hacienda Minister: Jochi Vicente
Superintendent of Banks: Alejandro Fernández Whipple
National Budget director: Jose Rijo Presbot
CEI-RD director: Biviana Riveiro
Economic advisor to the President: Pedro Silverio
Legal Advisor to the President: Antoliano Peralta
Energy & Mines Minister: Antonio Almonte Reynoso
Administrative Minister of the Presidency: José Ignacio Paliza
Defense Minister: Major General Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa
Head of the Health Cabinet: Vice President-elect Raquel Peña
Public Health Minister: Plutarco Arias
Deputy Minister for Collective Health: Ivelisse Acosta
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Listin Diario
El Caribe
21 July 2020