Diana Cordes is the Director of the Financial Systems Development Department. She joined GFA in 2007, before she worked as banking and management consultant in two banks in Mozambique and Angola. Diana has been working within international development cooperation for over 15 years managing, implementing and steering technical assistance projects in the financial sector in Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Her focus areas are Micro and SME Finance as well as Green and Sustainable Finance. Diana holds a Master Degree from the University of Cologne and she is a Certified Professional for Renewable Energy Finance (CPREF), and a Certified Expert for Sustainable Finance.

Diego Calderón is a Portfolio Manager specializing in sustainable finance, SME and agriculture finance within the Financial Systems Development Department. Diego holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Finance from the Universidad Del Rosario in Colombia, a Master's Degree in International and Development Economics from the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, and is a Certified Expert in Sustainable Finance (CESFI). With nine years of professional experience, including more than six years in the development cooperation sector, Diego has specialized in green and climate finance and SME development. He joined GFA in 2020 and since then he has managed projects mainly focused on the design and implementation of green and SME competitiveness credit lines for financial institutions in Latin America and Central Asia. Diego is fluent in Spanish, English and German and has a good working knowledge of Portuguese.