Make participants aware of the environmental and social risks in loan and investment projects as a consequence of the activities of their clients. Teach participants strategies and tools to detect, mitigate and assess these social and environmental risks. Explore the next steps in terms of promoting the efficient implementation of environmental and social risks in the country's financial sector.

Jenny Montes Vásquez
Economist with a Master's in Environment and Development and a Master's in Business Administration with a specialization in Sustainable Management from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. In addition, she has received training from INCAE (Costa Rica) in Sustainability and Management of Financing for Sustainable Development: Water and Energy. She is the co-author of Environmental Conflicts and Sustainability in Latin America: Negotiations Between Businesses, NGOs, and Governments. Consultant. She has worked in the Colombian financial sector since 2003, holding various specialized positions in credit analysis, risk management and business planning. She has experience in the international financial sector, mainly in Germany, and is part of the Corporate Sustainability Team at Hypovereinsbank, a member of the UniCredit Group. She has been a professor in the Master's Program in Environmental Sciences at the University of Antioquia, Colombia. In this city, she was the Coordinator of the Environmental Department of a Canadian mineral exploration company.

Risk managers and analysts, investment officers, portfolio and relationship managers, working in commercial banks with different types of financing (project finance, corporate finance, SMEs and trade finance).