Paula Moreno

Biography

Master in Philosophy of Management Studies from the University of Cambridge, SPURS/Fullbright Fellow in the Urban and Regional Planning Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Yale World Fellow; an industrial engineer from the Universidad Autónoma de Colombia.

Paula was Colombia's Minister of Culture (2007 - 2010), the first- Afrocolombian woman to hold a cabinet position in the country history. Founder and President of Manos Visibles, one of the largest ethnic leaders network in the Americas. She has been member of the Board of of the Ford Foundation, in which has acted as Program committee chair; Author of two books "El Poder de lo Invisible" (The Power of the Invisible) and “Soñar lo Imposible” (Dreaming the Impossible) with Penguin Random House. She has received several awards: Black Excellence Award (2020) in the U.K., Global Fairness Award (2019), World Economic Forum, MIPAD, Governments of Mexico and Colombia, among others.