Mariana Bárcena is a Director at German development bank DEG and responsible for the Credit Review Department for Corporates & Funds global (debt & equity). Previous to taking responsibility of the Credit Review Department she was in charge of the PE & Corporates Team for Latin America focused on generating new business and managing the existing portfolio for the Latin America region.

DEG is one of the largest European development finance institutes. It provides long term capital in form of debt, mezzanine and equity to private companies in developing and emerging markets in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe/Russia. DEG’s objective is to generate a positive development impact through its investments while generating a risk-adjusted, sustainable return on its invested capital. In 2020, DEG made new commitments of €1.4 billion and held a portfolio of almost € 8.5 billion in more than 80 countries. DEG is part of the KFW Banking Group, which is a AAA-rated German banking group, majority-owned by the German government