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 High School. Cabral-Corrada graduated in 2013 with Dean's List recognition from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), concentrating in business and government studies.[2] He was also a member of the Alpha Kappa Psi business society and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity.[3]

In 2012, he spent a semester studying economics and politics as a Hansard Scholar at the London School of Economics, where he completed his academic thesis on the European sovereign fiscal situation.[2][4]

In 2020 Cabral-Corrada obtained an MBA as a Howard E. Mitchell Fellow in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.[5][6]

While there, he organized along with Mauro Guillén the first ever Ivy League conference to take place in Puerto Rico.[7] The conclave brought together global leaders like Ambassador Joseph Westphal, Dean Geoffrey Garrett, Deputy Secretary Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall and the principal leaders of Puerto Rico. The central topics of discussion were best practice policy solutions to help with the reconstruction after Hurricane Maria and the fiscal crisis.

Also, he was a weekly contributor in the Sirius XM Wharton Channel discussing socioeconomic and policy events in the U.S. and Latin America along with prominent figures like Chef José Andrés, Congressman José Serrano and Leopoldo Martinez Nucete.[8]

Cabral-Corrada worked as an Investment Vice President at Stone Lion Capital, a multi-billion dollar investment fund.[9] 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.[10][2] Prior to that, he served as an Institutional Analyst in Morgan Stanley's Institutional Equity Trading Group.[11][2][12]

In 2018, Harvard Business School wrote a case study[13] on Puerto Rico. Mr. Cabral was one of the few individuals quoted in the case study, along with then House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop, former IMF First Deputy Managing Director Anne Krueger and U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain.

During the ongoing debt crisis, Cabral-Corrada has appeared in panel discussions to discuss the islands' fiscal and economic situation, calling for a good-faith renegotiation of the debt, economic development, public–private partnerships, improvement in collection of existing taxes,[1][14] and fiscal reforms. At the federal level, he has advocated 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.[15]

Cabral-Corrada has attended conferences on the islands and emerging Latin American markets,[16] including forums organized by the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce,[17] the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras College of Business Administration,[18] and WUNO Broadcasting Group.[19]

Cabral-Corrada is the eldest son of Julio Cabral and Mercedes Corrada, who are in business and philanthropy.[30][31] He has one younger brother and two younger sisters.

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.[29]