Nicolás Pérez Marulanda

Executive President, National Federation of Oil Palm Growers at Fedepalma

Speaker

Nicolás Pérez Marulanda holds a BS in Economics from Universidad de Los Andes and a MA in International Development Policy Duke University – Sanford School of Public Policy. He has twenty years of experience in the public and private sectors, with extensive knowledge of agribusiness and rural development, economic and financial project appraisal and evaluation, and development financing. He started his career in the Colombian financial sector as an investment banker and the moved to the public sector where he was the head of the Sustainable Rural Development Unit at the National Planning Department and the Government Advisor on Coffee at the Ministry of Finance. For ten years he was responsible for the Colombian coffee-sector´s public policy, overseeing the investment of the National Coffee Fund´s resources. He´s been a member of several boards of directors and a mentor for companies related to the agricultural sector in Colombia. Recently he has been named as Fedepalma´s CEO, the National Federation of Oil Palm Growers.