External Consultant
In XNUMX and XNUMX, she served as Colombia’s Ambassador to India with concurrent accreditation to Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Prior to that, she held the key post of Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Colombia in the United States for a second time. She also led the Colombian Trade Office in Washington, D.C., during the launch of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States.
She has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. In the private sector, she held senior executive positions at Postobón and in the offices of Organización Ardila Lülle as Director of Regulatory and Corporate Affairs; at Coltabaco–Philip Morris International as Government Affairs Manager; and in the United States, at the customs and trade law firm Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, where she served as Director for Latin America and the Caribbean during the FTA negotiations with CAFTA-DR, Colombia, and Panama. Additionally, she worked with Chemonics International on stabilization and support programs for vulnerable communities, and as advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS).
