Julio A. Cabral Corrada

Cabral Corrada was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He graduated with honors in 2009 from Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola.[3]

In 2013, Cabral Corrada graduated Dean's List from Cornell University, where he focused on business and government studies.[2] He was a member of the Alpha Kappa Psi business society and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity.[4]

In 2012, he was a Hansard Scholar at the London School of Economics, where he studied economics and politics and completed his academic thesis on the European debt crisis.[2][5]

In 2020, Cabral Corrada obtained an MBA as a Howard E. Mitchell Fellow in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.[6][7] In 2019, while at Wharton, he worked at the Lauder Institute under Professor Mauro Guillén and organized the first Ivy League conference to take place in Puerto Rico.[8] Also, he was a weekly contributor in the Sirius XM Wharton Channel discussing socioeconomic and policy events in the U.S. and Latin America.[9]

Afterwards, in 2021, Cabral Corrada also received a Master’s Degree in policy and management from Harvard University.[10] In 2021, while at Harvard, Cabral Corrada was appointed as a Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Equitable Development Manager. In his role, he advised local and international public leaders on economic, education, and policy issues, including the mayor of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Carolina Mejía.[10][11][12]

Cabral Corrada worked as an Investment Vice President at Stone Lion Capital, a multi-billion dollar investment fund.[13] He performed financial analysis on credit and equity investments across Latin America and emerging markets. Cabral Corrada has also served as an intermediary between the Puerto Rico government and investors in the high-profile $70 billion debt restructuring.[14][2] Prior to that, he was an Institutional Analyst in Morgan Stanley's Institutional Equity Trading Group.[15][16]

In addition, Cabral Corrada has also served in the United Kingdom’s Parliament’s Scrutiny Unit as a Financial Analyst and as the Director of Strategy of Telemundo’s Premios Tu Musica Urbanos.[10]

During Puerto Rican government-debt crisis, Cabral Corrada appears in panel discussions to discuss the islands' fiscal and economic state, calling for a good-faith renegotiation of the debt, economic development, public–private partnerships, improvement in collection of existing taxes,[1][17] and fiscal reforms. At the federal level, he advocates for parity in Medicaid & Medicare federal funding, access to Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection currently available to U.S. states, and exemption from the maritime cabotage legislation known as the Jones Act.[18]

Cabral Corrada is the eldest son of Julio Cabral and Mercedes Corrada, who are in business and philanthropy.[29][30] He is a grand-nephew of the late Baltasar Corrada del Rio, who was Mayor of San Juan, Resident Commissioner, Secretary of State, Lieutenant Governor of Puerto Rico and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.[28]