Ana Maria Aristizabal

Ana Maria Aristizabal has two decades of experience in impact investing, venture capital, non-profit management, and investment banking. She has supported the growth of dozens of startups and non-profit organizations as an investor, board member, and operator.

Ana Maria has taught a popular impact investing course at the SIPA since 2018. She is also a board member at Village Capital, a global nonprofit dedicated to unlocking social and financial capital for early-stage impact companies.

Ana Maria co-founded a groundbreaking edtech and future of work fund for Latin America to fill a major gap in the market. Ana Maria advised Jobs for the Future and played a key role in structuring and launching their new workforce tech fund and corporate innovation council. Before, she led the growth of KIPP schools in California, which resulted in the launch and renewal of fifteen schools and USD 50M in annual revenue for the non-profit.

Ana Maria made significant contributions to impact investing in Latin America as part of Bamboo Capital Partners, where she spearheaded equity investments in companies providing essential services to low-income communities.

Ana Maria’s career started as an investment banker at Citi and ABN AMRO, where she executed high-value capital markets and structured finance transactions for infrastructure, government, and multilateral clients worth USD 2 billion. 

Ana Maria holds an MPA from Columbia University, a master in education leadership from the Broad Residency (now at Yale), and a bachelor in Finance from Externado University. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, with proficiency in French.