World Federation of Development Financing Institutions
WFDFI - 1979
It was in Zurich in June 1979 at a UNIDO development bank conference that AADFI, ADFIAP and ALIDE, jointly with KfW of Germany signed an agreement to establish the World Federation of Development Financing Institutions (WFDFI). Its first governors were Willi F. L. Engel of KfW, Frankfurt; René Amichia of AADFI, Ivory Coast; Tomás Pastoriza of ALIDE, Dominican Republic; and Vicente R. Jayme of ADFIAP, Philippines. By the end of 1979, the WFDFI opened its secretariat at the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO) in Madrid, then headed by Rafael Bermejo Blanco.

José Elías Gallegos became its first secretary general. Since then there have been seven other secretaries general as shown in the annex. The headquarters of WFDFI was in Madrid from 1979 until 1994, when a decision was taken to give WFDFI a rotating secretariat by having the secretariat assumed by each regional association for a two-year period. The secretariat has been with ADFIAP in Manila from 1995 to 1998 for three years and it then moved to ADFIMI in Istanbul in 1999, with Orhan Sagci from Turkey serving as secretary general.  Since may, 2002, Rommel Acevedo, Secretary General of ALIDE is the Secretary General of WFDFI.

Presidents of WFDFI

Vicente R. Jayme, Philippines, 1970-1979
René Amichía, Ivory Coast, 1980-1985
Gustavo Petricioli, Mexico, 1986-1987
Mohammed Aissaoui, Morocco, 1988-1989
Suresh S. Nadkarni, India, 1990-1992
Oscar Espinoza Villareal, Mexico, 1992-1993
Hindemburgo C.Pereira-Dinitz, Brazil, 1993-1994
Chang-Dal Kim, Korea, 1994-1996
Aswin Kongsiri, Thailand, 1996-1998
Saleh Ghazali, Malaysia, 1998
Safa Ocak, Turkey, 1999
Sudi Apak, Turkey, 1999-2000
Orhan Güleç, Turkey, 2000-2001
Md. Noor Yusoff, Malaysia, 2001-2002
Gonzalo Rivas Gómez, Chile, 2002-2003
William Hayden Quintero, Costa Rica, 2003-2004
Mario Laborín, México, 2004-2006
Nicolla Angelucci, 2006

Secretaries General of WFDFI

José Elías Gallegos, Spain, 1979-1986
Ramón Alvarez, Spain, 1986-1989
Enríque Sanchez Blanco, Spain, 1989
Pedro San Miguel, Spain, 1990
José Ignacio de Ramon, Spain, 1990-1992
José Arnaiz, Spain, 1992-1993
Francisca Orosco, Spain, 1993-1994
Orlando Peña, Philippines, 1995-98
Orhan Sagci, Turkey, 1999-2002
Rommel Acevedo, Peru, 2002-