Luis Marquez

Gender and Business Advisor, Value for Women

Luis has over 12 years of experience in the design and implementation of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment projects, advisory services, evaluations, studies, institutional strategies, and strategic partnerships. He has worked with a variety of development organisations, including the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations, and the World Bank. At Value for Women, Luis leads global and regional landscape reporting on women’s STEM employment in the infrastructure sector, gender-lens investing, and women-led businesses’ access to finance. His work also focuses on helping financial institutions design programmes that create value propositions for women-led small and medium enterprises (SMEs); conducting women’s entrepreneurship ecosystem assessments that offer policy recommendations to policymakers and private sector partners; and providing investors and corporations with gender-lens investing advisory support and trainings. Luis is originally from Mexico and has worked extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean. He holds a BS in Business Administration from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and an MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.