Climate Action and Positive Biodiversity Management
The fundamental mission of the Climate Action and Positive Biodiversity Management (GACBP) is to support CAF to be the green Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. To achieve this, it has the technical areas responsible for (i) the mainstreaming of Climate Action and the valorization of natural capital in the programs and projects financed by CAF, (ii) ensuring the guarantee of compliance with environmental and social safeguards, (iii) the mobilization of resources from climate funds, (iv) internal environmental management and, as a new area of responsibility, (v) the generation of new 100% green operations.
Biography Alicia Montalvo
Alicia Montalvo
CAF Climate Action and Positive Biodiversity Manager
Alicia Montalvo is a member of the Higher Body of Commercial Technicians and State Economists of the Government of Spain. She has a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University (MPA2) and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Valencia, Spain.
Before joining CAF in June 2022, she developed her professional career in different positions related to Climate Financing, Economic Policy, and Trade. She served as Chief Economic and Commercial Counselor at the Spanish Embassy in Colombia and as Executive Director for Spain, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, and Sweden at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Previously, she was General Director at ICEX Spain Trade and Investment, of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and General Director of Climate Change at the Spanish Ministry of the Environment, acting as the main negotiator within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
In the economic area, she served in the Ministry of Economy of Spain, acting as a member of the Economic Policy Committee of the European Union. She was the General Director of Trade and Foreign Investments, having responsibility for the Spanish ODA Credit Fund and debt for development programs, among others.
In the academic field, she has been a professor of Natural Resources Economics at the Carlos III University of Madrid.
