Environmental Engineer with 20+ years of international experience across industrial, mining, consulting, development banking, and multilateral sectors. Specialized in ESG risk management, climate change, climate and sustainable finance, carbon and biodiversity markets, and energy transition.
Strong background in designing and supporting high-impact sustainability and climate finance initiatives across Latin America, Europe, Africa, and global programs. Recognized for combining technical expertise, strategic vision, and cross-sector collaboration to deliver practical, impact-driven solutions.
I have provided technical advice to UNOPS operations and projects located in different latitudes, particularly in ESMS improvement, identification of gaps in the implementation of
A&S safeguards, and in gender/human rights aspects
In my role as an independent consultant, I have developed ESMSs for investment funds (equity/impact); I have reviewed biodiversity credit frameworks and strategies; I have
conducted national/international due diligence processes; I developed the strategy to link/attract the private sector to the GCF private sector window; I designed the scheme/architecture for the Costa Rica Adaptation MRV and I have been an occasional lecturer since 2017 on sustainable finance topics at EAFIT University.
I acted as a climate finance specialist for the UN REDD program, providing support to several countries in LAC, developing, among other things, the architecture of the Paraguay Climate
Change Fund and being part of the structuring team of the Business Alliance to Scale Up Climate Solutions (BASC).
I did work as a co-author of the white paper “Navigating Pollution: A Blueprint for the
Banking Sector” and supported the implementation of FARM Project (Financing Agrochemical
Reduction & Management).
I had the opportunity to lead the team that, among other actions, developed Colombia's first climate finance strategy, incorporated the first climate finance chapter in the BUR, oversaw the CPEIR study, developed the MRV of climate finance, and organized the 2017 international climate finance event.
I developed and implemented the ESMS to guarantee the investment by the IFC; I participated in the A&S evaluation of projects for more than USD 2T; I developed the first
E&S Due Diligence standard for Infrastructure Projects in Colombia and representing the entity I was elected as Vice President of the Green Protocol of the Colombian Banking
Association.
I was one of the relevant contributors to this project, one of the first and largest open pit gold mining projects in Colombia, obtaining its Environmental License.
I had the opportunity to be the Environmental Coordinator for the industrial and mining operation of what was at that time the largest cement plant in the country.
Master, Environmental Management
Business Administration School
Bachelors, Environmental Engineering
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