Rolando Castañeda is an international economic consultant, specializing in project formulation, execution and ex-post evaluation. He worked for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) as a senior economist for 27 years until his retirement in 2002. Through that period he worked in macroeconomics studies and project evaluation, as well as in a number of senior positions supervising macroeconomics studies, country program coordination for several Latin American countries, and project formulation, execution and ex-post evaluation in Santiago, Chile from 1996-2002. Before joining the IADB, he taught Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Trade and Statistics at the Universidad del Valle of Cali, Colombia (1968-1970) and at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras (1966-1968). He also worked as a Senior Economist at the Organization of American States (1970-1974) and the Puerto Rican Planning Board (1960-1968). He has been an active ASCE member since its foundation in 1990.

He authored or co-authored that have been published in volumes I to XIX of Cuba in Transition.