Speaker Profile

Borja is a Senior Sustainable Finance Specialist in the Global Financial Institution Group where he works with the global and regional teams on certain sustainable finance transactions and initiatives. His focus is expanding IFC sustainable finance efforts beyond climate and gender to include other inclusive, social and sustainability segments. He engages across products and financial intermediary segments—such as banks, microfinance institutions (MFIs), funds, and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs)—with a particular emphasis on replicable transactions in sustainability linked financing, capital markets and structured finance. Borja was the Head of Structuring and Latin America & Caribbean (LATAM) at Citi Social Finance, based in London. In this role, he led a team across 19 countries in LATAM and spearheaded global resource mobilization efforts with Development Finance Institutions and impact and institutional investors. His work involved innovative financial structures such as co-financing, risk-sharing programs/guarantees, structured finance and sustainable trade finance. During his tenure at Citi, Borja successfully mobilized over USD 4.5 billion towards emerging markets across Africa, Asia, and LATAM, supporting sectors including financial inclusion, healthcare, education, water and sanitation, and affordable housing. Prior to Citi, Borja worked at British International Investment (BII), formerly CDC Group, the UK’s Development Finance Institution. At BII, he played a pivotal role in structuring impactful transactions across the financial services sector in Africa and South Asia. He was instrumental in establishing BII’s Financial Institutions debt business and later led their Risk Sharing/Guarantee business, focusing on Structured Credit transactions. His work involved collaboration with financial institutions, special purpose vehicles, and private credit and equity funds. He helped to set up the FI and Intermediated Credit business for BII. Borja also brings valuable experience on development finance from his roles at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London and IDB Invest, the private sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank, based in Washington DC. In these roles, he structured debt and capital markets transactions across Europe and LATAM. Additionally, he worked at Deutsche Bank in London, further enriching his expertise in financial markets. Borja has a genuine interest in gender-lens investing and has served on the Board of Directors of 2X Global, representing Citi and the private sector. Borja holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance from AFI (Analistas Financieros Internacionales) in Madrid, Spain. In 2022, he was selected to participate in the Harvard Business School – Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance, held in Boston, USA.