Maria Perdomo
InvestorRegional Investment Team Lead for Asia and the Pacific Region at UNCDF · Manager, VMX at FirePower Capital
Colombia
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About
Maria Perdomo is the Regional Investment Team Lead for Asia-Pacific at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), where she oversees the officers who source, structure, and deliver blended-finance solutions and works to shift the portfolio from grant-based aid toward catalytic instruments across economic resilience, nature and climate finance, and energy transition. She has more than 20 years of experience in development finance, during which she has mobilized over USD 50 million in commitments and directed results-based and blended finance to more than 100 financial institutions and private-sector partners in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-Pacific. Her work has focused on expanding access to finance and building partnerships with financial institutions, central banks, UN agencies, NGOs, and development partners.
Experience
- United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)Regional Investment Team Lead, Asia-Pacificcurrent2024 — presentBangkok
- United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)Deputy Director, Inclusive Digital Economies (Detailed Assignment)2024Bangkok City, Thailand
- United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)Regional Manager for Asia and Pacific, Inclusive Digital Economies2020 — 2024Bangkok
- United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)Youth Finance and Empowerment Lead2016 — 2020Senegal
- United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)YouthStart Programme Manager2010 — 2016Senegal
- Reach Global, A Division of Thrive NetworksSenior, Technical Advisor2009 — 2010San Francisco Bay Area
- Freedom from HungerTechnical Advisor2006 — 2009Davis, California
- Neighborhood Trust Financial PartnersFinacial Education Director2002 — 2006New York City Metropolitan Area
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Business PlanningAfricaBudgetsProgram ManagementPolicy AnalysisNon-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)International RelationsPublic PolicyStrategic PlanningProgram EvaluationEconomic DevelopmentPolicyLanguages English · French · Italian · Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Maria Perdomo?
- Maria Perdomo is the Regional Investment Team Lead for Asia-Pacific at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), where she oversees the officers who source, structure, and deliver blended-finance solutions and works to shift the portfolio from grant-based aid toward catalytic instruments across economic resilience, nature and climate finance, and energy transition. She has more than 20 years of experience in development finance, during which she has mobilized over USD 50 million in commitments and directed results-based and blended finance to more than 100 financial institutions and private-sector partners in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia-Pacific. Her work has focused on expanding access to finance and building partnerships with financial institutions, central banks, UN agencies, NGOs, and development partners.
- Where does Maria Perdomo work?
- Maria Perdomo is Regional Investment Team Lead for Asia and the Pacific Region at UNCDF.
- Where did Maria Perdomo go to school?
- Maria Perdomo studied at Columbia | SIPA (MIA, Economic and Political Development); Universidad Externado de Colombia (Finance, Public and International Affairs); Sciences Po (Certificat, International Affairs).
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Also attended Columbia | SIPA96
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Also attended Universidad Externado de Colombia21
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Also worked at United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)9
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