Marcela is a Climate Change specialist in the Advisory Division of BID Invest. She is responsible for supporting the development of operations by structuring and implementing innovative solutions to promote a greater climate impact in projects developed with financial intermediaries and the infrastructure sector.  She support the clients for the creation of their climate strategies, decarbonization plans, create green financial products and alignment to frameworks and strategies such as TCFD, TNFD and Net Zero.

Before joining the IDB Group, Marcela worked as Project Manager for Grupo Express on projects to implement clean technologies for passenger transportation, search for and strengthen new business and develop energy efficiency initiatives in the transportation sector. She has extensive experience in promoting climate actions in transport infrastructure sector in Colombia, Peru and Chile.

She hold a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and a specialization study in organization control and management systems at the same university and graduated as an Industrial Engineering from Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Colombia).