Launch of the CAF Strategy for Gender Equality 2022–2026

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.

Graduated in economics at the University of the Republic. She earned a master's degree in applied macroeconomics at the Catholic University of Chile. She was the director of the Debt Management Unit of Uruguay's Ministry of Economy and Finance. She was a professor at institutions such as the University of the Republic, the Catholic University of Uruguay, and the University of Montevideo.

(India) serves as the assistant secretary-general and UN Women’s deputy executive director since August 2019. Before joining UN Women, Ms. Bhatia had a distinguished career at the World Bank Group, serving in various senior leadership and management positions, both at Headquarters and in the field. She has extensive experience in the area of international development, strategy, resource mobilization, strategic partnerships and organizational change management.   

Ana María Baiardi Quesnel has several postgraduate degrees from the University of Perugia, Complutense University of Madrid, the Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies and Long Island University, and a diploma in Equality Agent in the framework of the Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Intervention in Gender Violence and Equality Agent from the International University of Valencia, Spain. She was the minister of Women of Paraguay and vice president of the International Commission of Women of the OAS between 2013 and 2018. She has served as Ambassador of Paraguay in Peru and Italy as well as a representative to MERCOSUR and FAO. She has published various works on Gender Equality, Gender-based Domestic Violence, Violence against Women in the business environment, among others.

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).

Especialista en género, con amplia trayectoria en evaluación de proyectos y cambio organizacional, en transversalización e institucionalización de género en las Políticas Públicas, así como una importante experiencia acumulada como consultora en género, políticas y desarrollo. Antes de ingresar a CAF, se desempeñó en diversos roles en el Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres de Uruguay y como Coordinadora de la Maestría en Género y Políticas Públicas de FLACSO Uruguay. Doctoranda en Ciencias Sociales por FLACSO Argentina. Es Magister en “Género, Sociedad y Políticas Públicas” y Licenciada en Sociología.

He has been part of CAF since 2016. Previously, he held different positions at the Center for the Promotion of Micro and Small Enterprises in Central America of the Central American Integration System; He was a researcher in the Macroeconomics and Development Area of ​​the National Development Foundation and taught at the Don Bosco University and the University of El Salvador. She is an economist from the University of El Salvador, with a Master's degree in Gender, Identity and Citizenship from the University of Huelva, and a Master's degree in Cooperation Strategies, Agents and Policies for Development from the University of the Basque Country. He has additional training in alternative identities, foreign trade indicators, economic policy, industry development, and development strategies.

Lucila Berniell has a Ph.D. in Economics from Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) and a M.A. in Economics from the same university. She also has a B.A. in Economics from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina). She is a research associate at the CEPE of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina). She was previously a researcher at IERAL of Fundación Mediterránea (Argentina) and at the Institute of Economics and Finance of the UNC, and a lecturer at the Universidad Carlos III in Spain, the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and the National Universities of La Plata and Córdoba in Argentina. Her research interests are in the areas of the economics of education, economic development, labor economics, and health economics. See publications

She is a gerontologist from the Public University of Quindío and has a degree in foreign languages ​​from the Public University of Valle. He obtained scholarships to study at Georgetown University, in the United States, where he participated in a competitiveness program for Latin America, and to do a master's degree in Government and Public Policy at ICESI University, awarded by the Manos Visibles corporation, the IDB, the Ford Foundation and the Korean Poverty Reduction Fund. She was coordinator of the International Cooperation Office of the Cauca Government, and in 2020 she became the first elected mayor of the city of Timbiquí, a municipality in the Pacific region of Cauca.

Degree in Political Science, Government and Administration. In December 2019, she became the first female President of Aguas y Saneamientos Argentinos (Aysa), the second largest water and sanitation company in Latin America and fifth in the world. Ms. Galmarini also chairs the Latin American Association of Water and Sanitation Operators (ALOAS). She is a provincial deputy elected by the Province of Buenos Aires under license and previously served as Secretary of Health Policy and Human Development and Councilor of the Municipality of Tigre, among others.

Ana María Baiardi Quesnel has several postgraduate degrees from the University of Perugia, Complutense University of Madrid, the Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies and Long Island University, and a diploma in Equality Agent in the framework of the Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Intervention in Gender Violence and Equality Agent from the International University of Valencia, Spain. She was the minister of Women of Paraguay and vice president of the International Commission of Women of the OAS between 2013 and 2018. She has served as Ambassador of Paraguay in Peru and Italy as well as a representative to MERCOSUR and FAO. She has published various works on Gender Equality, Gender-based Domestic Violence, Violence against Women in the business environment, among others.