Diana Barrero Zalles

Diana Barrero Zalles is Director of ESG & Climate Tech at Emergents @ Weild & Co., advancing investment banking at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets with a focus on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and climate tech. She is also co-author of the book Transparency in ESG and the Circular Economy: Capturing Opportunities Through Data, which discusses the importance of environmental, social, and governance issues in today’s connected world, and the role of emerging technologies to uphold sustainability. Diana founded and currently runs a blockchain discussion forum at the International Center for Finance of the Yale School of Management and is a Forbes contributor on digital assets, having published industry research on stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, market integrity for crypto trading platforms, and decentralized financial market infrastructure. She also advised the Parliament of Cyprus to establish a regulatory framework for digital assets and AML/CFT risk assessment. Previously, Diana managed cross-border transactions with the investment banking offices of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. She is an alumna of the University of Notre Dame and has an MBA from Yale. She was born in Bolivia and is a native Spanish and English speaker.