Diana Barrero Zalles

Director, Emergents Emergents @ Weild & Co

iana Barrero Zalles is Director of ESG & Impact at Emergents @ Weild & Co., advancing investment banking at the intersection of innovation and strategic governance. She is also co-author of the book Transparency in ESG and the Sustainable Economy, which discusses emerging technologies in context of the ESG trend in financial services. She has advised the Parliament of Cyprus to establish a regulatory framework, in addition to conducting a national AML/CFT risk assessment, for digital assets. She founded and currently runs a blockchain discussion forum at the International Center for Finance of the Yale School of Management and is an active working group member of the industry association Global Digital Finance, having published industry guides for Central Bank Digital Currencies and market integrity for crypto trading platforms. She also published research on stablecoins and decentralized financial market infrastructure, and she writes about digital assets for Forbes, to educate the investment community. Previously, Diana managed large cross-border transactions with the investment banking offices of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. She is an alumna of the University of Notre Dame and has an MBA from Yale. She was born in Bolivia and is a native Spanish and English speaker.