Ángel Cárdenas is the urban development and creative cities manager at CAF – Development Bank of Latin America. An Eisenhower fellow at Eisenhower Fellowships, Cárdenas is a professional with over 10+ years of hands-on experience in strategic planning and development finance at the World Bank and CAF. He brings in-depth knowledge on identifying business opportunities for development projects for both the private and public sector, with focus on capturing synergies between the two. Able to develop country strategies, and perform political risk and credit analyses, strategic project/loan due diligence, and lead negotiations and multidisciplinary teams. Client focused, creative problem solver, results-oriented, comfortable working in a multicultural setting.

Cárdenas was an event speaker at the Dialogue.