Carmen Correa

Chief Executive Officer, Pro Mujer

Bio Current as of February 18, 2025

With a vast experience inside Pro Mujer since 2017, Carmen is the organization’s Chief Executive Officer. Carmen previously served as Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, supervising the implementation of Pro Mujer’s social impact programs, which include expanding financial inclusion, providing health and well-being services and offering skill-building opportunities to underserved women across Latin America. Correa has more than thirty years of experience in operational management, strategic planning and program execution focusing on sustainable development in Latin America. Before joining Pro Mujer, Carmen led efforts at the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) in Uruguay to develop a new instrument to finance a venture capital fund and business accelerator. Carmen also served as Program Director at Fundación Avina Uruguay, leading the regional strategy for inclusive markets aimed at contributing concrete and relevant changes that lead to a more sustainable development in Latin America. Prior to Avina, Carmen led as Chief Operations Officer and later as Executive Director of Endeavor Uruguay, an international non-profit organization that supports high impact entrepreneurs. She also served as Administrative Manager at DeRemate.com an online auction site in Uruguay, and has occupied various positions at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC and at the Organization of the American States (OAS) in Uruguay.

Carmen is board member of 2X Global, member of the steering committee of the Taskforce on Inequality & Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), advisory board member of Socialab Uruguay and the EC-America Program at Columbia University. Carmen is a mentor of Endeavor Uruguay and she actively participates of the Global Steering Group on Impact Investment.

In 2023 Carmen was selected by Google.org as one of the seven Leaders to Watch. In 2025 Forbes listed Carmen as one of the 50 Over 50 Global change makers.

Carmen holds a B.S. in Management from National- Louis University in McLean, VA, and has a Business Administration Certificate from Georgetown University, among other management development courses from Harvard Kennedy School in Boston, John Hopkins University and USDA in Washington, DC, and ESADE/ORT in Uruguay.