 Mr. Salazar has a bachelor's degree in economics from Villanova University.He also did post-graduate coursework in finance at the Stern Graduate School of Business at New York University and the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Among his major accomplishments was the creation of a new GDB subsidiary, COFINA, in October 2007, to place sales tax revenue bonds in the municipal bond market in the United States and refinance about half of Puerto Rico's accumulated extraconstitutional debt.