Ana Maria Carrasquilla-Barrera

Ana María Carrasquilla-Barrera (LAW ’02) is a member of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center Alumni Advisory Board. She has more than 25 years of experience, mostly in multilateral financial development institutions of Latin America. She is currently the CEO of CAF Asset Management (CAF-AM). CAF-AM was created in 2014 as a wholly owned subsidiary of CAF – The Latin American Development Bank – and has the objective to mobilize funds from institutional investors toward priority development projects in the region, through structuring and managing private investment funds. It has assets under management of more than $1.4 billion, operations in Colombia and Uruguay and expansion plans throughout the region. She is the former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the FLAR (Latin-American Reserves Fund) – for a period of nine years – a multilateral financial entity with eight member countries, assets under management of more than $7 billion and the main objective of providing central bank members with credit facilities in crisis situations and improve investment conditions of international reserves in international markets. She also worked as the Chief of the Financial Structuring of the Metro de Bogota, the largest infrastructure project in the history Colombia.  Ana María has worked in the private sector as well. She was a senior associate of Gómez Pinzón & Asociados, specializing in financial cross-border transactions. She has advised national and regional governments in matters related to financial law, fiscal, investments and public finance matters. She has published several articles on international economics and international financial architecture, among many subjects. She coordinated the preparation of the book “Building a Latin American Reserve Fund -The 35 years of FLAR”. She is a member of various boards including the Advisory Board of the Center for Global Development of Boston University’s Pardee School of Government. Ana María is a lawyer from Universidad del Rosario, in Bogotá, Colombia and holds an LLM in Banking and Financial Law of Boston University’s Law School.