Jacques Defay

Jacques Defay is Pragma’s founder and Chairman of the Board. From 1977 to 2006 he directed the company’s development strategy and supervised its worldwide consulting and project implementation activities as President. In 2007 he became Chairman of the Board. Prior to founding Pragma, Mr. Defay was a Development Economist at the Organization of American States and a Project Economist with the Inter-American Development Bank. Mr. Defay holds an MS in Economics and a BS in Statistics from the University of Minnesota.