Juan-Pablo Martínez-Molina Mercado, a Spanish national, serves as Senior Advisor to ADB’s Vice-President (Market Solutions), overseeing Private Sector Operations and Public-Private Partnerships across Asia and the Pacific.
Juan-Pablo joined ADB in 2017 as an Investment Specialist in the Infrastructure Finance Division 2, specializing in the origination, structuring, and execution of structured debt financing transactions in a wide range of sectors, particularly in the power, LNG, renewables, satellite, water, and mining industries.
Juan-Pablo has significant experience in Project Finance transactions in Indonesia, including some of the country's largest and most challenging projects, such as the $1.7 billion Jawa-1 IPP, the $222 million Riau gas IPP, the $215 million Eastern Indonesia Renewable Energy IPPs, and the $160 million Kacific-1 HTS, involving multiple sources of financing and diverse stakeholders.
In 2020, Juan-Pablo was promoted and transferred to the East Asia team, playing a pivotal role in expanding ADB’s financing assistance to the private sector in China (PRC) amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The following year, he also assumed the role of Country Anchor for Mongolia.
In 2023, Juan-Pablo was further promoted to Senior Infrastructure Specialist in the Southeast Asia Department, concurrently leading ADB’s in-country efforts for Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). In this capacity, he was Lead for the Finance Working Group for the $20 billion JETP.
Before moving to Asia, Juan-Pablo was with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, D.C. During his four-year tenure at IDB Invest, he worked on complex and innovative energy and infrastructure investments across Latin America and the Caribbean, such as the $124 million Colonia Arias wind IPP, the $120 million Valentines wind IPP, the $117 million Providencia Solar IPP, and the $245 million Kingston Container Terminal expansion project financings, each of which was market firsts and the largest of their kind at the time of financial close.
Before his posting in the USA, Juan-Pablo was based in Luxembourg with the European Investment Bank. He worked at Banco Santander IBD and Airbus Defence & Space (erstwhile EADS) based in Paris.
Juan-Pablo completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Civil Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, while simultaneously studying finance at the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in France, where he earned his Diplôme d'Ingénieur (double Master's degree).