Felix Quintero
Felix Quintero serves as Counsel at the World Bank and is based in Washington, DC. He works on operations across Europe, Central and South Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean to support countries address pressing development challenges. Previously, he served as Counsel at the Inter-American Development Bank, focusing on corporate governance, resource mobilization and intellectual property. He has also served as Counsel at the UN Refugee Agency in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he forged partnerships with the public and private sector to further the agency’s mandate, and at Shell in his hometown of Caracas, Venezuela, providing legal advice on both upstream and downstream ventures.
Felix has conducted research as a visiting fellow for the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and been selected as a fellow by the Atlantic Council’s Millennium Leadership program, National Endowment for Democracy’s Penn Kemble Forum on Democracy, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. In addition, the American Bar Association selected him as part of the 40 under 40 On the Rise Award for the 2020 cohort. Félix holds LLM degrees in Rule for Law for Development from Loyola University Chicago, and in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University, as well as an LLB and BA in Liberal Arts from the Universidad Metropolitana (Caracas). He’s licensed to practice law in New York and Venezuela.
I have been a member of HQAI's General Assembly since May 2025.
HQAI offered a terrific opportunity to contribute at a time when international aid and cooperation are increasingly being scrutinized and, to an extent, called into question by key actors.
Its unique role in supporting organizations with distinct mandates in the humanitarian and development fields.