About this Speaker
Diana Gaviria has over 20 years’ experience in leadership roles in the government, non-profit, the private sector and academia. She holds a Bachelor Degree in International Affairs from Georgetown University and a Masters in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University. In her early career she worked in environmental issues at the Colombian National Planning Department, the National Parks Service and the Ministry of the Environment, where she was Secretary General. In these posts she helped create several financial vehicles for environmental projects and social entrepreneurs, including Ecofondo, Fondo de Acción Ambiental y la Niñez and Patrimonio Natural.
During the last six years she has been the CEO of Connect Bogota, a non-profit organization created by over fifty universities and corporations with the objective of transforming Bogota into one of the most innovative regions in Latin America. At Connect she has works with entrepreneurs and innovators in Bogota and around the world. In 2018, she will be a judge in LATAM's version of History Channel's Program "An Idea to Change the World". Her passion is to connect transformative ideas and projects with people and resources that will help make them a reality.
Abstract
Diana has three teenage sons (two in Colegio Nueva Granada and one in Medical School at Javeriana). She likes to travel throughout the world, particularly to see beautiful landscapes, and loves to spend time with her husband Eduardo and children in their farm in Subachoque. Working at the frontier of technology, and having three teens that don’t see themselves coding or being “techies” in the near future has inspired her to reflect on the future of humans and of our lives in an age of exponential change.