Ph. D. Janio Rosales has more than 20 years of experience in different productive areas in multinational companies, including construction, sugar and industrial sectors. These include Ingenio Pantaleón, Centrarse and Guatemala Chamber of Construction, among others, where he served in different positions related to private and public affairs, sustainability, social projects and communication.

In the public administration, he assumed the position of Minister of Economy, after the experience acquired as head of the Private Secretariat of the Presidency, a position he held from March 2021 to March 2022.

He was advisor, consultant and director for private institutions and civil society organizations in Guatemala, Spain and Brazil, as his resume shows; and in organizations such as Centrarse, in Guatemala, Forética (Spain) and the Government of the Canary Islands (Spain), among others.

In the private sector he served for four years as executive director and general manager of the Guatemalan Chamber of Construction, in addition to being permanent secretary of the Regional Organization of Chambers of Construction of Central America and the Caribbean (ORDECCCAC). Additionally, he represented the construction chamber in the political, economic and international commission in the Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial, and Financial Associations (CACIF, for its Spanish acronym).

He was also manager of the Institutional Advocacy of the Center for Corporate Social Action and Responsibility (Centrarse, for its Spanish acronym), where he coordinated different projects in important companies such as Ingenio La Unión, EEGSA, Asazgua and Multi Inversiones. Likewise, he was head of Responsible Development at Ingenio Pantaleón and coordinator of Social Responsibility at the Education for Employment Foundation of Spain, among other positions in public and the private sector.