CAF at Finance in Common

Sergio Díaz-Granados has extensive experience in public and private service, both nationally and internationally, with special emphasis on regional development and integration issues. Before assuming the presidency of CAF, he served as Executive Director for Colombia at the Inter-American Development Bank. He previously held the positions of Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia, Vice Minister of Business Development and President of the Boards of Directors of Bancóldex and ProColombia. He also has been a congressman and chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Colombia’s House of Representatives.

Christian Asinelli is a political scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), has a Master's degree in Public Administration and Policy from the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA) and postgraduate degrees in Urban Economics (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and in Sociourbana Management (FLACSO). In 2019, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from the National University of San Martín (Argentina). During the last sixteen years he has been appointed in different roles in the public sector and the international arena: Alternate National Director of the State Modernization Project at the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2005); Deputy of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2007-2010); Undersecretary of Evaluation of Projects with External Financing of the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2011-2014); Corporate Director of Institutional Development of CAF (2014-2017); President of the Fundación Banco Ciudad (2019) and Undersecretary of International Financial Relations for Development, Secretariat of Strategic Affairs, Presidency of the Nation. He was a Fellow of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program (2010), the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies-MIT (2011) and the Singularity University Executive Program (2017). He is the author of the books Buenos Aires: The city we have, the city we want (Buenos Aires, 2009); Modernization of the Argentine State: policies, management and professional scene (Buenos Aires, Edition, 2015) and Financing Development: The role of multilateral banking in Latin America (Buenos Aires, 2021).

Carolina España was responsible for financing from international institutions and other multilateral organizations, as well as managing relations with development entities and governments, in order to attract resources for the region. He also worked on the design of the institution's bond issuance strategy, in terms of cost optimization and investor diversification, and was in charge of relations with risk rating agencies and investors, as well as support for activities of the institution in the international capital markets. Spain, with a master's degree in Finance and a Systems Engineering degree from the Metropolitan University of Venezuela, worked as a consultant on treasury management systems for Price Waterhouse, a company in which she participated in several projects for companies in Venezuela such as PDVSA, Mavesa and Corimón. .  

É, desde setembro de 2020, Conselheira Chefe do Escritório Econômico e Comercial da Embaixada da Espanha na Colômbia, representando também a ICEX Espanha Exportação e Investimento. Anteriormente, desde setembro de 2017, é Diretora Executiva para a Espanha no Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, com sede em Washington. É licenciada em Economia pela Universidade de Valência e Mestre em Administração Pública MPA2 pela Universidade de Harvard (1992) (Bolsa Fulbright).
Técnica Comercial e Economista do Estado do Governo de Espanha, desde 2014 exerce o cargo de Diretora Geral da ICEX Espanha Exportação e Investimento, do Ministério da Economia e Competitividade, com responsabilidade pelos serviços às empresas, programas de formação, cooperação institucional e transformação digital . Anteriormente, desde 2012, foi Diretora de Infraestruturas, Ambiente, Energia e TIC desta mesma entidade. De 2008 a 2012, foi Diretora Geral do Escritório Espanhol de Mudanças Climáticas do Ministério do Meio Ambiente espanhol, onde foi responsável, entre outros, pelo processo de negociação internacional sobre mudanças climáticas nas COPs da Convenção-Quadro das Nações Unidas e em os fóruns da União Europeia. Ele também foi membro do Comitê de Transição responsável pela criação do Fundo Verde. Anteriormente, desenvolveu sua carreira no Ministério de Economia e Finanças da Espanha, sendo Diretora Geral Adjunta de Economia Internacional e, como tal, membro dos Comitês de Política Econômica da União Europeia e da OCDE por seis anos. Foi também Diretora de Política Comercial e Investimentos Estrangeiros, responsável pelo Fundo de Assistência ao Desenvolvimento e Diretora Geral Adjunta de Gestão da Dívida Externa e Avaliação de Projetos, lançando os primeiros programas de conversão de dívida em investimento. Foi professora associada na Universidade Carlos III de Madrid, no Departamento de Economia Aplicada, leccionando a disciplina de Economia dos Recursos Naturais (1993-2000).

He holds a Doctorate in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He was Deputy Chief of the Economic Advisory section of the Ministry of Planning, Secretary of Economic Monitoring of the Ministry of Finance and Minister of the Secretariat of Ports of the Government of Brazil. He participated in the Board of Directors of public and private companies, in which Caixa Económica Federal, Vale S.A. (Fiscal Council) and Banco do Nordeste merit particular mention. He was Executive Director for Brazil at the World Bank and the IDB.

Manager of urban development and creative economies for CAF- Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-. He previously served as a director for the energy projects for the South Region at CAF. Angel Cardenas is an Eisenhower Fellow at Eisenhower Fellowships, a forum that brings leaders from around the world to spend several weeks meeting with experts in their fields of interest throughout the US in the spirit of making the world more peaceful, prosperous, and just. Cardenas has worked for the World Bank, Universidad Central de Venezuela, and the University of Toronto.

Alberto Ñecco is a Peruvian economist from the University of Lima who has a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD by its French acronym). The general manager of CAF-AM has more than 20 years of experience in the financial sector and investment banking in entities such as ING Bank, Deutsche Bank, Banco de Crédito del Perú, and Credicorp Capital, where he actively worked in its creation through the purchase of leading investment banks in Colombia and Chile to later become the first regional CFO of Credicorp Capital and finally Executive Director of Corporate Development, participating in the creation of the Credicorp/Sura company for the development of private debt investment funds for infrastructure in Peru and Colombia; and more recently in the public sector as Vice Minister of Transportation and Executive Director of the Private Investment Promotion Agency (ProInversión), having awarded a total of 18 projects during his management with a total investment of approximately USD 4,400 million, in addition to having promoted important initiatives to optimize PPP processes.

Doctor in Government and Public Policies. Coordinator of the Water Agenda at CAF. Alternate Governor on the World Water Council. Magister in Hydraulics and Civil Engineer from UNAM with the Gabino Barreda medal; experience of more than thirty years in Latin America. He was Coordinator of the WSP of the World Bank in Bolivia; Senior Water Advisor for the German GIZ Cooperation in Peru and Bolivia for twelve years. He led the Water Regulatory Body of Bolivia by presidential appointment. He was National Manager of Engineering and Technical Standards and Assistant Manager of Studies at CONAGUA, Mexico. Consultant for international organizations on three continents and with several published books.

He is an information systems administrator from Purdue University, Indiana, United States. He has a master's degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance, from the Madrid Business Institute, Spain. He was secretary of Economic Development of the Atlantic and general manager of the Puerta de Oro Caribbean Events Center, one of the largest infrastructure projects in the city. He has been Secretary of Mobility of Barranquilla and Manager of City Development, where he was in charge of projects of great impact, such as Siembra Barranquilla. In 2017 he was appointed Minister of Housing, City and Territory of Colombia and in 2019 he was elected as Mayor of Barranquilla.