Lina Rojas is a workout expert and business engineer with 15 years of experience in international business transactions. She is responsible for managing impaired loans, guarantees and equity investments. She enforces the IDB Invest’s rights and preserves its capital via negotiations, recoveries and restructurings of non-performing loans and equity positions. Due to her extensive knowledge in this area, she also works in disseminating the "lessons learned" to all IDB Invest. Lina joined the IDB in 2013. She previously worked as a manager in what is today Itau Banco in Colombia. Lina obtained an MBA from American University’s Kogod School of Business and an Industrial Engineer Degree (BS) from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.
While looking for signs of credit deterioration, traditional financial risk analysis needs to be conducted in depth and integrated with a thorough understanding of the non-financial issues that any company or project faces.