Susana is a Senior Partner at Capria Ventures and Executive Advisor to the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America (LAVCA). She has 22 years of experience being at the forefront of innovation, entrepreneurship and high impact investing; building bridges between countries and regions to improve dynamic ecosystems worldwide; and supporting high growth entrepreneurship among women in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Previously, she worked at the Inter-American Development Bank where she was Chief Investment Officer and Gender Initiatives Coordinator at the IDB Lab. Since 1999, Susana Garcia-Robles has been the principal architect of IDB Lab’s seed / VC investment program as well as its high impact entrepreneurship and angel investment / women economic empowerment strategies. Susana is a co-founder of the Argentinean VC / PE association and the Colombian VC / PE association. She also serves on multiple boards of directors of VC funds and foundations, including on the Advisory Boards of the Brazilian VC / PE association , ForoMET, the Future Perfect Ventures Fund, and the CITES company builder / fund. She serves on the Board of Directors of Village Capital and in the investment committee of the Bancoldex Fund of Funds (Colombia) and the Cofide Fund of Funds (Peru). In 2012 she co-founded Wexchange, the first networking platform and pitch competition for LAC women STEMpreneurs which has dramatically improved women’s access to funding. In 2019 she co-founded WeInvest Latam, a platform for women fund managers who have LATAM as one of their regions for investment. Ms. Garcia-Robles has master’s degrees in Philosophy and Education by the Universidad Catolica of Argentina and in International Relations with a concentration on International Economic Policies by Columbia University.