Mauricio Cardenas
President, Titulizadora Colombiana
Colombia

Mauricio Cárdenas is currently President of Titularizadora Colombiana, an IFC- sponsored initiative in order to develop Colombia's secondary mortgage market. Between 1998 and 2000 he was Minister of Transportation and Director of National Planning of the Republic of Colombia. He also served as Minister of Economic Development in 1994 and as General Manager of the Empresa de Energía de Bogotá in 1993.

He also has an extensive academic career associated with Fedesarrollo (Colombia's leading think-tank), where he has held a variety of positions including Executive Director between 1996 and 1998. Since 1992 he has taught at the Universidad de los Andes, where he earned his master and undergraduate degrees. Mr. Cardenas holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.