In memory of Fernando Fajnzylber: Gert Rosenthal, Executive Secretary, ECLAC.

A few days before this issue of CEPAL Review went to press, our institution was shaken by an unexpected and tragic event: a fulminating heart attack had taken away from us one of the leading figures in the Secretariat. For those of us who had the privilege of knowing Fernando Fajnzylber personally and working with him, the sense of personal loss was overwhelming, while for the institution the loss was beyond measure.