María Carolina Giraldo Navarro is a Senior Consultant at Xtrategy in Bogotá, specializing in Business and Investment, Internationalization and Corporate Expansion. She is an Internationalist and Anthropologist from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where she graduated with honors, and has two years of professional experience in the public and private sectors, additionally focusing on foreign trade, international political economy and regional integration. 

Prior to joining Xtrategy, María Carolina worked at the Economic Integration Direction of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism. There, her work focused mainly on supporting the management of Colombia’s relations and trade agreements with Latin America and the Caribbean, assisting Colombia’s National Coordination in the Pacific Alliance, preparing Colombia’s reception of the Pro Tempore Presidency of the Andean Community, and assisting the Direction’s Trade and Gender team. 

In 2022, María Carolina co-authored the article “Colombia vis-à-vis regional integration in Latin America: between leadership initiative and preemption towards the United States” with Professor Germán Camilo Prieto, from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, published in the Revista Análisis Político. 

During her university degree, she was a research assistant at the International Political Economy Research Group of the International Relations Department of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. María Carolina speaks Spanish, English and French.