Diego Jara, PhD

Diego is a mathematician and engineer with extensive experience in derivatives markets in investment banks. During his time in New York, he worked at the research desks for plain vanilla derivatives, treasury bonds and exotic derivatives at Lehman Brothers. Diego also directed the Latin America desk for exotic derivatives at Deutsche Bank and worked as a Main Researcher at the Research Unit of Colombia’s central bank, the Banco de la República, where he worked on topics related to mandatory pension funds in Colombia. He also directed the area of quantitative development of the Division of International Reserves at the same institution. Diego is a Professor at the Master of Economics of the Universidad de los Andes and a member of the Board of Directors and Finance and Audit Committees of AMV (a self-regulatory organization supporting the capital markets in Colombia), the Investment Committees of Colfondos, Correval (Global and Fixed Income), AFIN, Patrimonio Autónomo Avianca, and of the Committee of Valuation and Audit and the Board of Directors of Infovalmer.