Paula VALENCIA

Environmental and Social Specialist, IDB Invest

Paula is an environmental and social specialist at IDB Invest, based in Washington, D.C. and she leads the agribusiness group within the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Division. She is responsible for evaluating environmental and social impacts and risks of agribusiness operations, proposing mitigation measures consistent with international best practices, supervising the performance and sustainability of projects, offering technical assistance to customers and generating knowledge products. She has extensive experience in the public and private sectors in Latin America and the Caribbean, having worked with the IDB Group for more than 16 years, primarily in agribusiness, financial intermediation, and manufacturing projects. Paula is an Industrial Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Colombia, she has a MSc in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University and other studies in agriculture from Cornell University.