Katherin Alfonso is Program Manager for the Latin America and the Caribbean Program at Global Financial Integrity. She analyses collaboratively with the Latam team illicit financial flows, money laundering, trade-based money laundering, beneficial ownership, and corporate transparency measures in the region. She coordinates a project in Colombia and Belize focused on increasing domestic resource mobilization (DRM) by promoting corporate, natural resource, and professional integrity through public policy enforcement and capacity building in the public and private sectors.
Katherin has led the national advocacy strategy on transparency of final beneficiaries in Colombia, for the last three years, providing technical support and training to different entities at the national level and developing analysis documents. Additionally, she leads the external communication strategy to promote awareness and education about crypto ecosystems in Central America, as part of a project to promote financial transparency in crypto in the region.
Before joining GFI, Katherin worked on development issues in non-governmental organizations related to forced migration and economic analysis. There she led the social advocacy strategies for different projects funded by the European Union, GIZ, and the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration from the United States (PRM). She has also worked as a rural development researcher, agriculture and environmental policy analyst, and economic journalist in Latin America and South Asia.