Ana Carolina Diaz

Ana Carolina Diaz is a Regional Innovation Analyst for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), based in New York. She specializes in international development, focusing on project design and management, particularly in social policy, education, and fourth sector development. Her work emphasizes systems change, social innovation, and global culture.

Before her current role, Diaz served as an advisor to the Vice Minister and project coordinator at the Ministry of Social Development in Panama (MIDES), where she led initiatives related to multidimensional poverty measurement and the Sustainable Development Goals. She has also worked as a Program Assistant at Columbia University and interned at Endeavor, focusing on entrepreneurial growth in various countries.1