Marcos Paya is a Partner and leader of Dalberg’s global Finance & Investment practice, where he has worked extensively advising clients and partners on sustainable capital allocation in emerging and developed markets. He works closely with institutional asset owners and allocators, development finance institutions, investment managers, and investee companies. Marcos leads Dalberg’s innovative finance advisory work under the Dalberg Capital offering, is a leader in Dalberg’s Latin America practice, and directs Dalberg’s presence in Mexico.

Examples of his recent work include developing an SDG-themed blended finance facility for a leading innovative development finance institution, structuring a large-scale investment mechanism for allocating impact capital to frontier and emerging market infrastructure, and designing a methodology and platform to make the SDGs more intentionally ‘investable’ for large-scale asset allocators.

Prior to Dalberg, Marcos advised private equity investors on the Latin America region at Eurasia Group, a political risk firm, led projects for the Inter-American Development Bank, and was a Senior Consultant for the Monitor Group, where he helped governments and large multinational companies compete and grow in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Marcos holds a graduate degree from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge. He speaks French, Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

Read more about Marcos’s work:

Three Priorities for Smarter Capital Flows

A New Harvest: How Blended Finance is Enabling Sustainable Farming

Empowering Women Through Economic Independence and Entrepreneurship

Addis Dreamt it, Sevilla Must Deliver it