Tatiana Buelvas

Tatiana Buelvas has over 7 years of experience in strategic planning; Knowledge Management; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Sense of Belonging; Corporate Communications; Design and Implementation of Projects focused on Social Impact; Interpersonal Relations in Multicultural environments.

She has been an international consultant for the Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global Citizens, in the empowerment programme for women leaders in Latin America in August 2021; Project Director for the SHE IS Foundation in Colombia from October 2019 to May 2021, where she developed national and international projects on peacebuilding, gender gap reduction and digital entrepreneurship. Intern and financial manager at Alianza por la Solidaridad, where she managed national and international payments for social impact projects supporting populations in Mauritania, Palestine and Africa, as well as fundraising activities from February to March 2020.

Project Director of social entrepreneurship initiatives at Escuela Taller Cartagena de Indias/MinCultura, Colombia, where a scalable business model “Tiendas Escuela Taller” was developed, with special attention to vulnerable populations; policies, plans, programmes and projects were formulated for the attraction of financial and marketing resources, promotion and advertising with a gender-focused approach. Workshop facilitator in assertive communication with a gender perspective, community communication and media for Colegio Mayor Cartagena de Indias, in December 2017.

Tatiana Buelvas was a Banco Santander scholarship holder for the “international doctoral mention” at Šiauliai State College, Šiauliai, Lithuania. She was also awarded the UNDP Youth and Public Policy scholarship in 2014; participated in the OAS diploma in strategic planning with a gender perspective in 2017; served as Vice President of Marketing for AIESEC Cartagena in 2012; participated in the Iberoamerican Leadership Congress in Viña del Mar, Chile; international speaker at the Women Economic Forum 2020; invited speaker by ALIBABA CLOUD to discuss the Women in Tech programme; scholarship holder of Fundación Mujeres por Colombia for the Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business Intercollegiate Business Convention. Winner of the Youth Assembly Impact Challenge in NYC, 2019, awarded by the UN for the Socioeconomic Empowerment Route for women victims of domestic violence in the city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

Teaching Experience: Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain. Social communication and crisis management classes, 2020. Svako University, Lithuania. Intercultural Communication classes, 2021–2023.