Colombia

International Trade Specialist | Educational Consultant | Entrepreneurship & Leadership Speaker.
Passionate about promoting the growth of entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized businesses through practical solutions in female empowerment, international trade, and access to global markets.

With over 13 years of experience combining international logistics, consulting, and education, my approach integrates:

✔ Strengthening entrepreneurial mindset and culture:

We provided training for 60+ female entrepreneurs, holding a workshop on introducing business models that sought to strengthen different concepts with the goal of encouraging purpose and introducing methodologies.

We designed the training program Accounting vs. Finance: Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset. Impacting approximately 200 entrepreneurs through the Opportunities Without Borders program.
✔ Leadership & Social Impact:

Ambassador for the international organization Mundo Rural Today. I promote partnership leadership through our Global Development Plan program. I work collaboratively for education and the economy, articulating SDG 8: Decent Work, linking public and private institutions, with SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

I belong to the mentor network of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Magdalena. I have mentored various projects, generating knowledge transfer and management in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

✔ Technical Experience:

Customs and logistics management: Optimization of operations in Free Trade Zones (ZFB Group, Hacienda La Gloria).

Educational Consulting: Development of training content in agile methodologies, applying design thinking.

🔹 "I believe in the power of education and collaboration to transform realities. Today, I help professionals and organizations connect their projects with global opportunities, while promoting equity and social innovation."

We are advising German NGOs, Foundations and Local Authorities on DEVCO-Funding Instruments and -Procedures

Senior Monitoring Expert since 2011 in Africa and ACP

Team member of the C2-C6 Facility for Mainstreaming environmental sustainability in EU external actions

Project management, identification (including EC’s financial proposals, Action Documents and TAP’s, terms of references for TA), formulation, proposals appraisal, implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, visibility.
Fully conversant with EuropeAid procedures (including OPSYS, Budget Support, Blending Facilities, EDF, Programme-Estimates and TCF contracts), PCM and LFA, ROM reviews, Results Reporting, M&E design and implementation.
16 years of experience in technical and financial evaluation of projects’ Concept Notes and Full Applications under the EC programmes NSA-LA in Development - Actions in partner countries, public awareness raising and education for development; Food Security Thematic Programme and Food Facility, Adaptation to Climate Change, ENRTP including FLEGT and REDD+, biodiversity conservation in marine protected areas, financing of conservation areas.
Identification and Monitoring of rural development, food security and nutrition, poverty alleviation, agri-business and value-chain, natural resources sustainable management, environment, adaptation to climate change, sustainable agriculture, forest management and governance including FLEGT, biodiversity, climate change (REDD+), agro-forestry.
Institutional Strengthening, capacity building, training and technical assistance to the Ministry of Environment.
Socioeconomic survey & Participatory Rural Appraisal with data collection and analysis in smallholder communities
Participatory community sustainable development, in environment, conflict resolution, human rights and gender;
SME and co-operatives, value-chains and agribusiness development in European and non industrialised countries: vocational training, alternative income generating activities for local development and their social and environmental impact assessment;
Fully conversant with computer software, web 2.0 tools, blogs and group discussions, websites.
Experience as team leader, team member, working-groups facilitator, workshops organisation.
Eligible candidate as Cast 27 RELEX Adviser – Operation Section - Rural Development, Food Security and Environment.

budget support (trainer), evaluator, public finance management expert

Political scientist with a Master of Arts International Relations/Political Science from the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Graduate Institute) in Switzerland. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in "Human Rights and Democratisation Processes" from the Human Rights Centre of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile in association with the ICTJ - International Centre for Transitional Justice.

She was born in Bogotá, Colombia and completed her university studies in Geneva, Switzerland where she lived and worked for fifteen years. Her professional work has focused on international cooperation (programme and projects management, NGO director); research on related issues; and advocacy for peace, development and human rights. She worked at the Delegation of the European Union in Colombia as Cooperation Officer for Human Rights and Focal Point for Children and Armed Conflict for nine years, and presently I is an independant senior consultant on international cooperation, human rights and peacebuilding.