Ana María Vidaurre is an international leader in sustainable infrastructure, clean energy, renewable hydrogen, and industrial decarbonization, with over two decades of experience across multilateral development banks, institutional investors, industry, and investment banking. She has built a distinguished career originating, structuring, and scaling high-impact investments, with deep expertise in complex negotiations involving governments, utilities, and private sector stakeholders.

Ana María spent nearly 18 years at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and 3 years at CAF – Development Bank of Latin America, where she led pioneering financing innovations and transformative infrastructure transactions. At IDB, she introduced Brazil’s first local-currency infrastructure loan and negotiated power purchase agreements in Uruguay that enabled the country’s first large-scale wind farm, catalyzing more than USD 2.5 billion in renewable energy investments. During her tenure, she also founded the Infrastructure 360° Awards in partnership with Harvard University’s Zofnass Program, convening 148 projects representing approximately USD 120 billion in investments to advance sustainable infrastructure practices across Latin America.

She later served at CDPQ, one of Canada’s largest institutional investors, where she directed infrastructure equity investments in Latin America. Her leadership included major acquisitions and strategic partnerships, notably the USD 8.6 billion acquisition of Petrobras’ 4,500 km TAG gas pipeline network, the largest non-recourse financing transaction in the region. In the private sector, she advanced Moeve’s renewable hydrogen strategy, co-leading the development of a 2GW platform in Iberia, assessing the bankability of a 7GW renewable energy pipeline, and structuring cross-border industrial alliances.

In parallel, Ana María has served as a non-executive board member for energy and infrastructure companies, as well as an independent member of credit and investment committees for financial institutions, contributing governance, strategic oversight, and risk management expertise to complex portfolios. Most recently, she was appointed by the World Bank as Co-Chair of the Independent Expert Group for the Climate Investment Funds’ Industry Decarbonization Program, where she co-led the evaluation of 26 country proposals across five regions and presented recommendations to governing bodies.

Fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, Ana María combines multicultural leadership with deep capabilities in origination, structuring, negotiation, and risk management. Her career has been defined by her ability to connect stakeholders, mobilize capital, and transform complex challenges into bankable, sustainable infrastructure investments that generate long-term impact and value.