María Constanza García Botero, MA.
Director (Independent)
Maria Constanza has extensive experience in Colombian mining, infrastructure, energy, urban development and public finance. Over her career, Maria has held high-level positions within government agencies, multilateral development institutions and private companies. While working within the Colombian government, Maria has served as the President of the Colombian National Mining Agency (ANM), the Deputy Minister of Transport Infrastructure, and held various leadership and advisory positions across the National Planning Department, the Hydrocarbons Agency and the Ministry of Finance of Colombia. As part of the private sector, Maria was the Director of International Cooperation for Agriteam, an international consultancy group funded by the Government of Canada in order to advance governance in extractive industries in Colombia, as well as having held manager positions at CEMEX Colombia, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank (Washington DC) in areas such as infrastructure, housing, urban development, municipal finance, and urbanism. Maria holds outstanding academic credentials as an industrial engineer from Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia with masters’ degrees in urban and regional planning, as well as in public administration from Ohio State University (USA), and graduate level degrees in economics and public administration from Universidad de los Andes.