Author Bio
Mauricio Ayala
Mauricio is an Officer in the Climate and Environment Division of IDB Invest, where he joined in 2024, after being an Advisory Services Officer in the Public Private Partnerships team for more than 6 years. Her work consists of actively supporting private corporations in the development of sustainable and bankable infrastructure and corporate projects. Prior to joining the IDB Group, he worked for more than three years as Legal and Economic Advisor to the Vice Minister of Finance and Public Credit in Colombia. He also worked as an attorney at Duran & Osorio Abogados, a Colombian law firm that focuses on infrastructure projects. He has extensive experience in the structuring and evaluation of PPP projects, particularly in Colombia, but also in the rest of the Latin American region. Mauricio holds a Master of Laws degree from Columbia University in New York (USA), and a double degree in Law and Economics from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).
Posts by Mauricio Ayala
Four Areas Ports Can Work on to Successfully Navigate the Future
Integrating MSMEs, enhancing synergies, promoting environmental sustainability, and fostering women’s participation and leadership are crucial to ensuring ports in Latin America and the Caribbean's long-term growth, innovation, and contribution to economic diversification, thereby benefiting natural capital and local economies.
For Earth Day, Nature-Based Solutions in Private Sector Infrastructure Projects
Several studies have shown that Nature-Based Solutions in private sector projects provide meaningful societal benefits for climate and social resilience, as well as ecosystem health.
This is the Time to Push Social Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean
Discussions about investment in transport infrastructure as a recipe to get out of the crisis have become a cliché. But there's not so much talk about investment in social infrastructure, focused on sectors such as health or education, which also creates large multiplier effects.