Experience

Asofiduciarias

• Colombia
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vicepresidente Técnica y Financiera

  • May 2023 - Present

• Technical Director

  • Jul 2014 - May 2023

  Identification of regulatory proposals of international organizations recognized as global standard setters for the securities sector to anticipate the orientation of future regulatory changes in the local industry of mutual funds and trust businesses. Analysis of impacts, with the support of technical committees, of regulatory modifications proposed by the National Government in several aspects related to local trust companies and their different lines of business: trust businesses, mutual funds, administration of private equity funds, voluntary pension funds, and securities custody. Presentation of trust sector’s opinions before authorities and other stakeholders. Support in the design of the mutual funds annual Congress academic agenda. Design of monitoring mechanisms for the compliance of Association’s strategic plan defined by the Board of Directors.• Preparation of comparative analyzes of different countries regulatory frameworks on issues such as: securities custody, fees for mutual funds distribution, requirements for pension fund managers to be able to acquire shares in foreign investment funds, management risk coverage, among others.• Preparation of technical documents for the Ministry of Finance and the Tax and Customs Authority in order to preserve the fiscal transparency mechanism of mutual funds and trust businesses discussed during the tax reform of 2016.• Analysis of impacts and aspects to be improved in regulation proposals issued by the supervisory authority to modify the accounting framework of a group of approximately 22 thousand trust businesses.• Proposal of amendments to the local regulatory framework of private equity funds presented to the Financial Regulatory Unit of the Ministry of Finance. Show less



Colombian Oil Association

• Bogota, Colombia

• Advisor to the Executive President

  • Jul 2013 - Mar 2014

  Responsible for ensuring the participation of the affiliates in the initiatives promoted by the National Government such as EITI (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative). Supported the Executive President of the Association setting up the Mining and Energy Alliance, which purpose is to define joint actions between the ten associations that represent the sector, in order to contribute to its development in the mid and long term. Coordination of different office areas to support the President in the development of his duties. Prepare the agenda and all the materials needed for the meetings of the General Assembly and Board of Directors. • Identify for the oil industry the payments that the sector’s companies will report to EITI. This is helping to improve sector’s reputation in the country and also making visible the economic contributions made by this industry. • Development of the technical secretariat of the Mining and Energy Alliance to identify the economic relevance of the sector for the Colombian economy, the alliance objectives, its work agenda, and its functioning mechanisms. • Implementation of a monitoring system for the different commitments acquired by the organization with the Board of Directors, the National Government and other stakeholders in order to evaluate the association’s compliance with general work plans. Show less



Cliffmont Resources Ltd.

• Vancouver, Canada

• Executive Assistant

  • Mar 2012 - Jan 2013

  Executive liaison between the subsidiary firm in Colombia and the CEO in Canada. Permanent monitoring of local Colombian news related to the mining sector, in order to convey to the team any events that might have a negative or positive impact on the project’s success. Strategic design of indicators to evaluate the company’s results. • Development of indicators to monitor the company’s performance on its operations, economic, financial, social and environmental components. Executive liaison between the subsidiary firm in Colombia and the CEO in Canada. Permanent monitoring of local Colombian news related to the mining sector, in order to convey to the team any events that might have a negative or positive impact on the project’s success. Strategic design of indicators to evaluate the company’s results. • Development of indicators to monitor the company’s performance on its operations, economic, financial, social and environmental components.



Presidency of the Republic of Colombia

• Bogota, Colombia

• Advisor – Presidential Office for Public and Private Management

  • May 2009 - Sep 2011

  Coordination of the System for the Facilitation of Foreign Investment (SIFAI). This committee was in charge of identifying and solving obstacles to the ingress of foreign investment to the country. Some of the actions promoted in this committee were: • Modification of Colombia’s visa regime to facilitate hiring foreign personnel. • Exemption from VAT on export of services. • Actualization of the regulation regarding the technical characteristics necessary to commercialize medicines in the country in order to allow the entry of new medicines to the country and mitigate risks of commercialization suspension of those medicines already present in the market. Coordination of the public and private formalization committee in charge of the design and implementation of strategies aimed to formalize the country’s economy. Some of the actions promoted in this committee were: • Law 1429 of 2010 for formalization and employment. • Gradual payment of para-fiscal contributions for firms with less than three years of creation. • Online affiliation to the social security system. • Payment of social security proportionally to the time labored for those employees that work less than 30 days in the month. Coordinate the different state entities and private actors that constitute the National Competitiveness and Innovation System in order to carry out the actions that make part of the National Competitiveness Policy (Conpes Documents 3527 of 2008 and 3668 of 2010). • Member of the Government team in charge of selecting 4 agricultural sectors to be included in the Productive Transformation Program. This program was created in 2009 as a component of the National Government’s policy for business development. Contribution to the formulation of the regional institutional framework of the new General System of Royalties so it could be compatible with the regional institutional framework of the National Competitiveness System. Show less



Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation

• Bogota, Colombia

• Advisor of the Planning and Monitoring Unit of the Network for Overcoming Extreme Poverty

  • Sep 2007 - May 2009

  Design of mechanisms and indicators to track the management of the United Network and the achievement of goals in its three components: Families’ Accompaniment, preferential access to the State Social Services and Strengthening of Local Social Protection System. Responsible of the supervision of the technical study carried out by UNDP, proposing indicators to measure families’ progress to overcome extreme poverty. Responsible for the supervision of the external evaluation of the network’s management and operations. • Conducted the socioeconomic characterization of the beneficiary families to request other state agencies the provision of services appropriate to their needs. • Conducted internal and external evaluations of the management and operation of the network to measure its efficiency and effectiveness on its pilot phase. These evaluations were an important input to identify the adjustments needed to expand the program to all the national territory. They were also a necessary requirement to request future funds to the Ministry of Finance to continue financing the operation of this program. • Designed the evaluation of the expansion phase of the program to all country’s municipalities. Show less



DNP / PNUD National Human Development Program

• Bogota, Colombia

• Junior Researcher

  • Feb 2006 - Aug 2007

  Monitored all the consultancy projects in the office on each of the different research stages to ensure the complete implementation of the annual work plan. Responsible for accountability reports to the Congress and to the directors of the program’s supervisory agencies (DNP and UNDP). Participated in different studies to evaluate the targeting mechanisms of the National Government used to provide social assistance to the population in poverty. • Calculation of social indicators at departmental and municipal levels to characterize the country's progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Show less