Diego is the Founder and Managing Director of Global SWF, an boutique advisory firm focused on Sovereign Wealth Funds and Institutional Investors. He has 16 years of industry experience in the world’s main financial centers.

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Founder and Managing Director of Global SWF, based in New York / Singapore. He is a world-renowned expert on Sovereign Wealth Funds, having acted as practitioner and advisor for many years and published several articles in leading academic journals. He has worked as a consultant of the World Bank and of the United Nations and supported the establishment or reformulation of a number of SWFs around the world.

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In the past few years, he has reshaped the SWF industry by establishing several key initiatives including the Global SWF Data Platform, the GSR Scoreboard for best practices among institutional investors, and the SWF Academy to nurture the future leaders of the world’s top sovereign and pension funds.

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Prior to establishing Global SWF, Diego spent five years building up PwC’s footprint in the SWF industry as the Director and COO of the global practice, based in Abu Dhabi and New York. He has also worked for KPMG and Santander and has lived in Europe, the Middle East, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil and the US.

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A Spanish-American dual citizen and Singapore resident, he earned his Masters in Finance from the London School of Economics (LSE) after graduating in the Universities of Madrid and Milan. Diego is a prolific open water and ice swimmer and has raced in all seven continents including Antarctica. He is the author of the book "Continents Seven: Values for sports, business and life, learned around the world".