Clarissa de la Rocha de Torres

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is de la Rocha, the second or maternal family name is Pimentel, and, for married women, the optional marital name is de Torres.

Clarissa de la Rocha de Torres
De la Rocha in 2006
Vice-governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 August 2004
Governor	Héctor Valdez Albizu
Preceded by	Félix Calvo
Personal details
Born	Clarissa Altagracia de la Rocha Pimentel (1959-08-12) 12 August 1959 (age 65) Ciudad Trujillo (now Santo Domingo), Dominican Republic
Citizenship	Dominican
Spouse	Nelson Alejandro Torres Rodríguez
Children	María Eugenia José Alejandro Natalia
Parents	Julio Ernesto de la Rocha Báez (father) Altagracia Edith Pimentel Vda. De la Rocha (mother)
Relatives	Ramón Báez (great-grandfather) Buenaventura Báez (great-great-grandfather) Ramón Báez Romano (first-cousin once-removed) Ramón Báez Figueroa (second-cousin) Federico Antún Batlle (second-cousin once-removed)
Residence(s)	Josemaría Escrivá #9 Piantini, Santo Domingo[1]
Alma mater	Universidad APEC
Occupation	Banker
Profession	Economist

Clarissa Altagracia de la Rocha de Torres (née de la Rocha Pimentel; born 12 August 1959, Ciudad Trujillo) is an economist from the Dominican Republic. She is serving as vice-governor (or vice-chairperson) of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic since August 2004.

Early life and family

De la Rocha was born within an upper class family, her parents are the deceased civil servant and columnist Julio Ernesto de la Rocha Báez (son of Julio de la Rocha Carmona^[A] and Mercedes Báez Soler^[B]), who served as Minister of the Treasury during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo,^[4] and Altagracia Edith Pimentel.^[1] She married engineer Nelson Torres Rodríguez and had three children.^[5]

De la Rocha de Torres graduated as Bachelor of Business Administration from Universidad APEC in 1980.^[5]

Career

De Torres joined the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic in 1978 as Assistant to the Foreign Exchange Department.^[6] De Torres was appointed on 17 August 2004 as vice-chairperson of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic.^[5][1]

Notes

1. Julio de la Rocha Carmona was son of Julián de la Rocha Cubelgé and María del Rosario Carmona Negrete.^[2]
2. Mercedes Báez Soler was the daughter of President Ramón Báez Machado and socialité Natalia Soler Machado.^[3]

References

1. "Declaración Jurada de Bienes de Funcionario Público: Clarissa Altagracia de la Rocha de Torres" (PDF). bancentral.gov.do (in Spanish). 4 September 2012. Exchange rate: 39.1348 per USD. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
2. Larrazábal Blanco, Carlos; Familias Dominicanas (II). Academia Dominicana de la Historia. Editora del Caribe: Santo Domingo, 1969. Page 82.
3. Larrazábal Blanco, Carlos; Familias Dominicanas (I). Academia Dominicana de la Historia. Editora del Caribe: Santo Domingo, 1967. Page 219.
4. Rodríguez Demorizi, Emilio (1955). "11: Año 1953". Cronología de la Era de Trujillo (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Ciudad Trujillo: Impresora Dominicana. p. 192. Retrieved 15 July 2016. OCTUBRE3.-El Vicepresidente de la Corporation de Hoteles Americanos, Stuart I. Hokembury, declara en Nueva York: "La República Dominicana ofrece grandes atracciones al turismo norteamericano, gracias a la administración integral del Generalísimo Trujillo y a la del Presidente actual, General Héctor B. Trujillo Molina". Lic. Julio E. de la Rocha Báez, Secretario de E. del Tesoro y Crédito Público, y S. Salvador Ortiz, Secretario sin Cartera.
5. "Clarissa de la Rocha de Torres: Vicegobernadora" (in Spanish). Banco Central de la República Dominicana. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
6. "Clarissa de la Rocha de Torres: Executive Profile and Biography". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 14 July 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.