Graduate Internship Opportunities

2025 Summer Internship Program

The 2025 Summer Internship Program is an opportunity to work with IDB, IDB Invest, and IDB Lab teams. Interns will work on a hybrid modality, incorporating in-person and remote work in Washington, D.C. We're seeking enthusiastic graduate students (master's and PhD) from diverse academic backgrounds to join us as summer interns under the Consultant modality.

Click the links to download the Terms of Reference (TOR) and find out more about the internship opportunities that match your field of study:

• Accounting, Business Administration, Global Business, Finance:
• 1. IDB – Finance Intern to Support Data Analysis for Staff Retirement Plan Investments (Download TOR)
• 2. IDB – Finance, Data, and Reporting Intern (Download TOR)
• 3. IDB – Financial Reporting and Accounting Intern (Download TOR)
• 4. IDB - Credit Risk Management Intern (Download TOR)
• 5. IDB Invest - Trade and Supply Chain Intern (Download TOR)
• 6. IDB Invest – Corporate Investment Intern (Download TOR)
• Civil Engineering, Urban and Transportation Planning:
• 7. IDB – Intern to Support Research on Congestion and Traffic Management in the Caribbean (Download TOR)
• Communication, Journalism, Media Studies:
• 8. IDB – Intern in Communications to Support Environmental and Social Risk Management Group (Download TOR)

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• Computer Science, Data Science, Data Analytics, Mathematic, Statistics:
• 9. IDB – Intern to Support Data Consolidation and Process Optimization in Information Systems (Download TOR)
• 10. IDB – Intern to Support Audit, Process Improvement, and Data Analysis (Download TOR)
• 11. IDB – Intern in Systemic Risk- Risk Management (Download TOR)
• 12. IDB – Data Analytics and Visualization Intern (Download TOR)
• 13. IDB – Intern to Support Derivative Risk Analysis (Download TOR)
• 14. IDB - Data Analysis and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Intern (Download TOR)
• Economic Research:
• 15. IDB - Intern to Support the Energy Division in Research and Data Analysis (Download TOR)
• 16. IDB – Intern to Support the Research Department in Behavioral Economics (Download TOR)
• 17. IDB - Intern to Support the Research Department in Financial Inclusion (Download TOR)
• 18. IDB – Research Intern in Econometric and Statistical Analysis (Download TOR)
• 19. IDB - Program Evaluation and Development Effectiveness Intern (Download TOR)
• 20. IDB - Aging and Population Dynamics Research Intern (Download TOR)
• 21. IDB - Social Protection and Labor Market Development Intern (Download TOR)

• Economics, Political Science, Public Administration, Public Policy:
• 22. IDB – Intern to Support the Knowledge Agenda in the Andean Region (Download TOR)
• 23. IDB – Economics Intern to Support the Tourism Group (Download TOR)
• 24. IDB - Gender and Diversity Mainstreaming Intern (Download TOR)
• 25. IDB – Intern to Support State Capacity Building for Development Effectiveness (Download TOR)
• 26. IDB - Money Laundering Control and Organized Crime Prevention Intern (Download TOR)
• 27. IDB - Regulatory Practices & Quality Analysis Intern (Download TOR)
• 28. IDB Invest - Development Effectiveness and Impact Measurement Intern (Private Sector) (Download TOR)
• Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, Geography, and Sustainability:
• 29. IDB – Intern to Support Geographic Information System (GIS) Data and Documentation (Download TOR)
• 30. IDB – Intern to Support the Water Security Program (Download TOR)
• 31. IDB – Intern to Support the Project of Transforming Lives in the Andean Region (Download TOR)
• 32. IDB - Urban and Environmental Geospatial Intern (Download TOR)

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• Foreign Service, International Relations/Trade, Public Affairs:
• 33. IDB - Internship to support the ConnectAmericas (CA) Group (Download TOR)
• 34. IDB - Intern to Support the Innovative Finance Team in the Global Partnerships Office (Download TOR)
• 35. IDB - Intern to Support the Partnerships Solutions Team (Download TOR)
• 36. IDB - Americas Business Dialogue (ABD) Project Support Intern (Download TOR)
• Human Resources Management:
• 37. IDB – Intern in Human Resources to Support Benchmark Research (Download TOR)
• 38. IDB - Intern to Support Culture and Leadership (Download TOR)
• Law, International Law:
• 39. IDB – Legal Intern to Support the Sovereign Guarantee Operations (Download TOR)
• 40. IDB - Legal Intern to Support Consultations for the Office of Ethics (Download TOR)
• 41. IDB - Legal Intern to Support Investigations for the Office of Ethics (Download TOR)
• 42. IDB - Legal Intern to Support the Corporate Legal Affairs Division (Download TOR)
• 43. IDB Invest – Legal Intern to Support the Compliance Unit (Private Sector) (Download TOR)
• Translation and Interpretation:
• 44. IDB – Translation and Interpretation Intern (Download TOR)

Click here to download the 2025 Summer Internship Timeline

What you'll need

To be part of our Internship Program, you will need to meet all the following requirements:

• Citizenship: Be a national of an IDB member country. IDB Invest has no nationality restrictions.
• Active student: enrolled in an undergraduate (bachelor’s) or graduate (master’s program as of the starting date of the internship program. The graduation date should be after the Internship period.
• Consanguinity: Not have family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB or IDB Invest.
• First job at the IDB Group: Be a first-time participant in an Internship Program held by the Bank or Inter-American Investment Corporation (“Corporation” also known as “IDB Invest”). In addition, you have not been a former staff member, Complementary Workforce (“CW”), contractor for the Bank or the Corporation, or have previously provided services to the Bank or the Corporation through a contractor or under any other contractual modality.

Application Requirements

• Select up to three (3) internship options in the application.
• Submit your resume, academic transcripts (official or unofficial), and university letter certifying your student status when applying.
• If you submit an unofficial academic transcript at the time of applying, you will be requested to present an official academic transcript if moving forward in the process.
• Academic transcripts and university letters should be issued within the last three months.
• For undergraduate students, the second year of school must be completed at the time of applying.
• For graduate students a minimum of 50% of coursework must be completed at the time of applying.
• Applications without the requested documentation will be disqualified.
• Save each file in a PDF format with your name and subject.
• DO NOT send copies of your degree certificates or other courses.
• You must be able to work 40 hours weekly from June 16th to August 15th, 2025. Dates are predetermined and fixed, interns cannot start or finish before or after the indicated dates.If you are an international student in the U.S.A., your work authorization is through CPT/OPT. Consult your school advisor before applying. You must be able to work 40 hours per week, many international students are limited to working part-time, depending on their academic standing.

Type of contract and duration

• Type of contract: Intern Consultant
• Length of contract: Two (2) months
• Dates of the contract: June 16th to August 15th, 2025
• Location: Washington, D.C. – United States of America

Our culture

At the IDB Group, we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at diversity@iadb.org to request a reasonable accommodation to complete this application.