Internationalist, corporate diplomat, and an expert in strategy, trade promotion, business expansion, innovation, and competitiveness, Ingrid has had a very dynamic career, developing, and implementing several projects in America, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East but also as an entrepreneur and businesswoman creating different ventures such as Spaxpress, Cultour, (technological platform to preserve traditions in the Pacific Alliance region) and ULead International (Global Trade Promotion Agency) in Mexico.
Member of the Global Diplomatic Forum, Member of Women’s President Organization (WPO), President to The International Organization of Women in Trade (OWIT), and Executive Director for The Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) in Mexico, she was appointed official partner and National Coordinator for SheTrades in Mexico by the International Trade Centre (ITC) also Senator to Mexico at the World Business Angels Investment Forum, Affiliated Partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion where is fully committed to empowering world economic development by easing access to finance and creating innovative financial instruments for entrepreneurs, startups, scale-ups, SMEs and investors.
Ingrid has worked for different countries, governments, trade promotion organizations and chambers of commerce such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Turkey, The United States, Colombia, Chile, Malaysia, and China, reaching international agreements and building bridges of understanding between different cultures and nations, such as the creation of the Mexican-Canadian Investment Consortium, the MOU between Manitoba Hydro and The Ministry of Energy, and the design of the first event for women business leaders in the Pacific Alliance.
Ingrid has been working with entrepreneurs and owners of companies throughout Latin America in terms of competitiveness, internationalization processes, diversity and social impact, always promoting, people´s engagement in the local sustainable development process through education, action and glocal diplomacy.