Paula Moreno

Biography

Paula Moreno, a Colombian industrial engineer with an MPhil in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge, has furthered her expertise through programs at MIT and Yale. She made history as Colombia's youngest and first Black female minister and became the youngest and first Afro-Latina on the Ford Foundation's Board of Trustees. As the founder of Corporación Manos Visibles, from 2010 it has impacted over 28,000 people and supported 500+ organizations, expanding its work to 11 countries to advance racial equality worldwide.
Honored globally, Paula has received awards like the Unita Blackwell Award, the UN’s MIPAD recognition, the Black Excellence Award in the U.K. and the Order of the Aztec Eagle, among others. She is a Skoll Foundation Fellow and a World Economic Forum-recognized social entrepreneur. A columnist for El Tiempo, she has authored two books with Penguin Random House, one that have been adapted as Caracol T.V. and Netflix series.