Ana Blanco

Ana is a sustainability, and external affairs expert helping clients identify, measure and manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities, and understand policy and regulatory frameworks. Ana has worked for the UN, the GSMA and PMI in corporate sustainability initiatives, focusing on stakeholder engagement, materiality assessment, policy analysis, measurement and disclosure. She also […]

Andrea Barrios

Andrea currently works at the Rockefeller Foundation on the Innovative Finance portfolio, specifically focusing on harnessing finance to mobilize private capital for social and environmental outcomes. These new innovative finance solutions range from new investment vehicles, market opportunities or partnership models. For three years Andrea supported the Zero Gap initiative as an Analyst. She now […]

Germán Barragán Agudelo

Gerente de Educación y Empleo en Fundación Corona durante los últimos 6 años, basado en Bogotá. En el pasado, fue especialista técnico en el programa Pacto de Productividad para la inclusión laboral de población con discapacidad; fue fundador y director ejecutivo de la Corporación Eccos para la educación y empleo de población víctima y excombatiente; […]

Iris Aguilar

Iris Aguilar is a Wayúu Craft Master of the Ipuana clan, she comes from a generation of Ipuanas that are “Wayúu art artists”. Her mother is a great teacher, her grandmother was also a great teacher, and for generations, Iris grew up with her two families, her mother Ipuana and her father, Uriana. At the age of […]

Nate Mook

Nate Mook is a seasoned leader and gifted storyteller who transforms words into action and ideas into impact. From 2018 to 2022, Nate served as the first CEO of World Central Kitchen (WCK), leading its transformation from a small operation with under $1 million in revenue to a global humanitarian powerhouse raising $500 million annually. […]

Carolina Urrutia Vásquez

Carolina Urrutia Vásquez directs Parques Cómo Vamos, an alliance between NGOs and academia to evaluate and advocate for Colombia’s National Park System.She is also the Incidence Director at Transforma. She directed Semana Sostenible at Publicaciones Semana for four years and led the environmental unit at Colombia’s National Planning Department between 2010 and 2012. Her past […]

Daniel Gonzales

Daniel Gonzales is Program Officer at the International Migration Initiative (IMI) at Open Society Foundations. He leads IMI’s work mobilizing investment and innovation from the business community, and promoting private sponsorship of refugees around the world. He also advises IMI on its work in the Americas. He was formerly Program Director at Fundación Avina, where […]

José Francisco Aguirre Borda

Ingeniero Industrial de la Universidad de los Andes con enfoque en finanzas y desarrollo organizacional, con más de 14 años de experiencia en consultoría y gerencia de organizaciones sociales y especializado en gerencia de proyectos. Inició su carrera profesional en el sector social y del emprendimiento como consultor asociado de la Corporación Compartamos con Colombia […]

Hon. Rick Perry

Rick Perry currently serves as the 14th United States Secretary of Energy. He leads an agency tasked with maintaining a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent and reducing the threat of nuclear proliferation, overseeing the United States’ energy supply, carrying out the environmental clean-up from the Cold War nuclear mission, and managing the 17 National Laboratories, home […]

Ángela María Orozco

Degree in Law and Socioeconomic Sciences from the Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá (1989), with a Master’s Degree in Comparative Jurisprudence from the University of Texas, United States (1990), and Specialization in Economic Law from the Universidad Externado de Colombia (1992). Before coming to the Ministry of Transportation, she was the president of the Colombian Association […]