Andres Rugeles is the Senior Advisor for Strategic Affairs at OPHI. In this role, he is responsible for creating and strengthening high-level and strategic partnerships with key actors in Latin America (public sector, international organizations, and civil society), to increase OPHI´s impact, presence and institutional alliances beyond the LAC region; and to contribute to the mobilization of resources with new and existing institutional partners.

He has extensive experience of 25 years in the fields of multilateral development banking, as well as in foreign affairs, and Latin American regional integration. 

He is an Associate Member of the Latin America Center at the University of Oxford, a member of the Advisory Board of the Global South Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE), and an international affiliate scholar at Cornell University.

Previously he served as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations in New York; Secretary of Transparency of Colombia; Secretary General, Chief of Cabinet and General Advisor of the President, and Representative in Argentina at CAF - Development Bank of Latin America; Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia; among others.