Ana Rosa is an Investment Officer, Financial Institutions at IDB Invest, which she joined in 2003. She is responsible for originating and structuring solutions that expand access to financial services with financial institutions of the Andean region. During her career at the IDB Group, she was a Project Portfolio Officer with financial institutions and has performed credit analyses of financial operations in the transportation, manufacturing, infrastructure, energy, and telecommunications sectors, among others. Before joining the IDB Group, she was Vice President of the risk-rating firm, Bank Watch Ratings de Colombia and Director of the Financial Analysis Unit at the Colombian Financial Superintendency. She also worked for Banco de Comercio Exterior de Colombia in the regional bank funding area with foreign trade. Ana Rosa earned a master’s degree in finance for the financial sector from Birbeck College of the University of London (UK), a specialization in investment project assessment from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), and an undergraduate degree in economics from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia).
The ecosystem growing around sustainable funds offers a source of financing for companies in the region, which may help international and local investors to develop their own sustainability agenda with transactions classified as impact investments in their portfolios.