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Discover best practices and trends from the Latin American and Caribbean private sector shared by IDB Invest specialists in agribusiness, development impact, energy, financial institutions, transportation, and more.

 

Blog authors

  • Karina Azzinnari

    Karina Azzinnari es jefa de la División de Sinergias Público-Privadas en BID Invest. Anteriormente, ocupó varios cargos en el Grupo BID como ser asesora del vicepresidente del sector privado y, antes de ello, especialista en mercados financieros tanto en el sector público como en el sector privado del BID. Con amplia experiencia en originación, estructuración y procesamiento de operaciones con y sin garantía soberana, Karina también fue consultora en el departamento de finanzas del Banco Mundial tras ocupar diversos cargos en entidades del sector financiero. Karina cuenta con una maestría en economía aplicada de la Universidad John Hopkins y una maestría en finanzas de la Universidad George Washington, habiendo obtenido su título de economista en la Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay.

  • Karina Gómez

    Karina Gómez Gálvez is the Commercial and Social Manager at Fondo Esperanza, with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, education, gender, impact studies, and microfinance for the most vulnerable sectors. She is responsible for creating and implementing the adult training model to promote entrepreneurship and empowerment for nearly 130,000 women entrepreneurs supported by Fondo Esperanza. Responsible for the creation of the institution's impact measurement and management system. She is an adjunct professor at the School of Social Work of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2021, she was part of the research team for the Solidarity and Social Investment Fund (Fosis) of the Government of Chile as an expert advisor for evaluating the impact perception of the Yo Emprendo program. In 2011, she was a consultant for creating educational modules to promote female entrepreneurship for Fundación Promoción y Desarrollo de la Mujer (Prodemu), Government of Chile. In 2009, she was part of the consulting team of the IDB, Un techo para mi País, for developing the Microcredit Program. She is a Social worker from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, a Diploma in Adult Learning and Education from Universidad Alberto Hurtado, a Diploma in Business Administration, and a Master in Community Social Psychology from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

  • Karisa Maia Ribeiro

    She is a transport engineer specializing in urban planning and mobility, managing large infrastructure projects, analyzing economic feasibility, and planning and modeling transport systems. She holds a master's and doctorate in Civil Engineering from Nagoya, Japan, and a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. With 20 years of experience working in Brazil, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, Karisa has worked with and coordinated multidisciplinary teams, seeking to develop various businesses and opportunities in the public and private sectors, with a focus on project management, economic feasibility analysis studies, urban mobility and accessibility, and optimization of resources and capital in large infrastructure projects. As a senior transportation specialist at the IDB, Karisa is dedicated to designing, managing, and monitoring major infrastructure projects in Brazil and the Bank's portfolio in the region.

  • Karla Bertocco Trindade

    Karla Bertocco Trindade is partner at Jive - Maua Capital, a leading Brazilian asset manager, where she heads the infrastructure division. Karla has more than 15 years of leadership experience in the infrastructure industry in Brazil. In 2019 she served as managing director of the Government and Infrastructure division at BNDES – Brazilian Development Bank, and prior to this she was the CEO of SABESP – São Paulo Water and Sanitation Company (2018), a mixed capital company responsible for providing services to more than 25 million people in the state of São Paulo. She was also Undersecretary for Partnerships and Innovation at the São Paulo State Government (2015-2018), in charge of PPP’s and privatizations in different sectors, and before that, director of Artesp and Arsesp. She joined Maua as partner in 2020 and in 2023 was appointed as President of the Board of Directors of SABESP.

  • Kelle Bevine

    Kelle Bevine es jefa de estrategia en el departamento de Finanzas Estructuradas y Corportativas del BID. En su puesto, gerencia un equipo de profesionales que facilitan un mayor impacto social y medioambiental en las operaciones del sector privado del BID, trabajando con clientes para idear inversiones que conduzcan a un desempeño de negocios sostenible. Anteriormente, Bevine fue consejera del director ejecutivo del BID e hizo carrera en el Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos, la Casa Blanca y Dean Witter en Nueva York. Bevine ostenta un master en economía internacional por la Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

  • Laura Giraldo

    Laura has over 8 years of experience working in operations, strategy, and project management at IDB and the private sector. Prior to joining the Advisory Service Team as Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion Officer, she structured blended financed transactions that focused on increasing access to finance to women entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to this, Laura worked at UberEATS as an Operations Specialist helping them optimize processes for the opening of new markets in the US. She has also worked for BID Lab in gender projects, and for the Grants Co-financing management unit at the IDB providing analysis and fund reporting to donors. She holds an MBA from IE Business School, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Florida at Gainesville.

  • Laura Goyeneche

    Laura Goyeneche is a consultant for the Social Protection and Health Division of the IDB, where she provides technical support in governance and data analytics. Prior to joining the IDB, Laura worked at Urban Labs at the University of Chicago providing technical support for juvenile justice analysis. She also worked at Fedesarrollo, supporting the calculation of public spending on drug policy and the estimation of the illegal gambling market in Colombia. Laura has a Master's Degree in Analytics and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Leonardo Mazzei

    Leonardo leads stakeholders’ engagement and non-financial risk management in high-risk high-reward projects at IDB Invest. He coordinates institutional and operational-facing engagement activities and partnerships to accelerate the private sector's adoption of sustainability solutions and best practices. Leonardo is a sustainability expert with over 20 years of experience leading regional and global impact investing initiatives involving multilateral development agencies, government, private sector, and non-profit organizations to advance sustainable development. He has extensive experience dealing with political and business leaders during economic reform, public-private partnerships, and project finance in over 40 countries. Before this role, Leonardo was Head of Communications at IDB Invest supporting private sector investments in Latin America and the Caribbean. Before the IDB, he worked as Senior Communications Officer for the World Bank, leading stakeholder engagement interventions in Africa, Central, and East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, focusing on infrastructure, energy, governance, and private-public partnerships. He has authored four books on the role of communication to enhance sustainability performance.

  • Leonardo Shibata

    Leonardo Shibata is a Health Specialist at the IDB with 10 years of experience in international organizations. A physiotherapist by training, he holds a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University. He previously worked at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, renowned as one of the top healthcare institutions in Latin America, and at the Ministry of Health of Brazil, where he contributed to programs improving access to rehabilitation services for people with disabilities and increasing physician availability in remote areas. His expertise lies in health data analysis and health systems and services planning.

  • Liliana Castilleja-Vargas

    Liliana is a country economist for Bolivia in the Andean Countries Department (CAN) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Previously, Liliana served as Peru's country economist and regional economist in the Southern Cone Countries Department (CSC) at IDB headquarters in Washington. Before joining the IDB, she held senior economist and finance positions at BBVA-Research, ECLAC/UN, and the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) in Mexico. Liliana has a PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham, UK, and a Masters in Finance and a BA in Economics, both from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Liliana is the author and co-author of several publications and articles on economic, financial, and socioeconomic development issues.

  • Liliana Olarte Rodríguez

    Liliana Olarte es Oficial de la División de Efectividad en el Desarrollo de BID Invest. Actualmente trabaja en conjunto con los clientes de la organización realizando testeos experimentales de soluciones innovadoras y evaluaciones de impacto rigurosas de proyectos aprobados. Adicionalmente, apoya el diseño de proyectos para maximizar su impacto en el desarrollo, brindando apoyo técnico en su conceptualización y mediante el diseño de análisis costo-beneficio y planes de monitoreo y evaluación. Antes de incorporarse a la organización, Liliana se desempeñó como consultora del Banco Mundial en Yakarta (Indonesia), de la División de Integración y Comercio del BID en Washington, y como investigadora de Fedesarrollo y de la Universidad de Los Andes en Bogotá (Colombia). Liliana es Economista e Ingeniera Industrial de la Universidad de Los Andes y tiene una maestría en Administración Pública y Desarrollo Económico de la Universidad de Harvard en los Estados Unidos.

  • Lina María Rojas Cuéllar

    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.

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