Anna Maria Carrasquilla-Barrera

Anna 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 served as the CEO of CAF Asset Management (CAF-AM), a 100 percent subsidiary and special purpose vehicle of the CAF Development Bank of Latin America, up to 2022, and was in charge of the group’s asset management business, specializing in private infrastructure debt funds with assets under management of approximately $1.5 billion, financing toll roads, railroads and social infrastructure projects structured as project finance and PPP schemes. Prior to that, she was Chairman of the Board and Executive President of Fondo Latin-American de Reservas (FLAR) for 14 years. FLAR is a multilateral financial institution with eight member countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, managing assets valued at $7 billion. She also worked as the Chief of the Financial Structuring of the Metro de Bogota, the largest infrastructure project in the history Colombia. She also served previously as 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 and is a lawyer from Universidad del Rosario, in Bogotá, Colombia. She holds an LLM in Banking and Financial Law from the Boston University School of Law.