Carolina Chaparro Alba

Who I am? 🙋🏽‍♀️

As a trilingual International Relations graduate with a Master's degree in Geopolitics, I am driven to contribute my skills and expertise to diverse, interdisciplinary projects. With experience collaborating with international teams, I am passionate about driving new strategies to address complex global challenges, leveraging data-driven insights to optimize project outcomes and maximize positive impact.

Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to work in a diverse range of employment experiences acquired in five distinct nations, which has contributed to my development and capacity for adaptability and it has given me an invaluable perspective that I constantly use to optimize the management of any task. These extensive and varied experiences have been acquired in prestigious and globally recognized organizations such as public institutions, consulting firms, financial institutions, NGOs, and think tanks, denoting a highly impressive and versatile professional trajectory.

With strong interpersonal skills, a very positive attitude, and eager to learn, I consistently love to take on new challenges. 

My personal superpower: Discipline and perseverance 🦸🏻‍♀️✨

I am a natural curious who has lived, studied and worked abroad in Canada, Belgium, France and Spain. The path has not been easy but instead enriching and it has fortified my determination to overcome any obstacle. In addition, it has contributed to my resilience and communication skills.

"The pursuit of knowledge is an ongoing journey, and it is those who are humble enough to recognize their own limitations and bold enough to seek out new perspectives who will ultimately achieve the greatest success. By embracing a growth mindset and a commitment to lifelong learning, we can unlock our full potential and make meaningful contributions to the world around us."

Project Consultant:

Winning Spain

- Consulting and management of a project closed with Banco Santander.

- Data modeling for recruitment process optimization, involving large data sets and performance of data visualization and reporting.

Regulatory Affairs Specialist for Banco Santander:

Compliance analyst responsible for consulting projects related to risk mitigation, and trade operations monitoring. In addition to ESG (Environmental Social, and Governance ) analysis to improve the bank's public relations with different stakeholders.

Foreign Policy Advisor:

The drafting of speeches and interventions within the Foreign Affairs Committee related to the analysis of complex international issues was carried out, along with policy-related work on French public policies and relations between France and Latin America. I elaborated reports related to the relations with this region and successfully achieved that the Latin American region was taken into account in the French debate.

Compliance Officer:

I was in charge of regulations and AML and counter-terrorism analysis. Through in-depth analysis with Excel, financial statement analysis, databases and innovative tools.

Public Affairs Officer:

In charge of databases, graphs, and infographics relevant for the analysis of the international conjuncture and the research and drafting of material on the latest global and EU political developments. In addition, I carried out the analysis of the voting behavior of political representatives within the EU bubble as well as analyzing social media content related to EU issues. Furthermore, I published and contributed to the platform for the 2019 European Parliament elections and collaborated in the organization of meetings, including debates following the plenary sessions of the European Parliament, webinars and seminars on EU-related topics.

Social Impact Analyst:

Throughout the management of projects related to vulnerable communities, I was able to achieve the evaluation of the results and impacts. In addition to the making of a comparative analysis of indicators between the controlled and untreated populations.

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: Master's degree Geopolitics

Relevant courses: Geoeconomics, globalization and development; Methods of analysis and graphic representations; Organized crime and cyber threats; International Terrorism; International Migrations; Geopolitics of Europe and America; Geopolitics of Africa and the Middle East; Strategic studies, security and defence; Methods of geopolitical and strategic analysis; Geopolitics of the environment and natural resources.

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Relevant courses: Development policies, Gender issues, Introduction aux institutions de l'Union européenne, Russian Politics, Problèmes Actuels de Politique Internationale, Politique de l'Amerique Latine, Armement et Désarmement en Politique Internationale, Développement et Globalisation, Sociology of Inequality, Sociologie du genre.

Universidad Externado: Finance, Government and International Relations

Relevant courses: International Political Analysis, International Economy, Security and Conflict, International Cooperation, Statistics, Border relations, Human Rights and International Justice, Eurasia, Latin America in International Relations, American Politics, Evaluation of projects, Administration and Financial Analysis, Middle East current perspectives, Administrative sciences, International Institutions.