Yolanda Martínez serves as the practice manager for digital development in Latin American and the Caribbean at the World Bank Group.
Previously, she served as a program lead for the GovStack Initiative at the International Telecommunications Union, assisting governments in expediting the digital transformation of their services. Within the public domain, Yolanda spearheaded Mexico’s National Digital Strategy, oversaw the Digital Government Unit at the Federal Level, and directed the Zapopan Digital City Program at the municipal level. In the private sector, while at Deloitte Consulting, she championed numerous digital transformation projects. On the international front, Yolanda headed the Office of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Chile and partnered with United Nations agencies and the OECD, acting as a peer reviewer for digital government strategies across various Latin American countries.
She has been recognized as one of the top twenty global influencers in digital government. She earned her PhD in information and knowledge society from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
Martínez was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
