About

Ángel Alberto Velandia Rodríguez is general counsel and company secretary at Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC), the stock exchange of Colombia. Velandia Rodriguez joined BVC in 2006 and was instrumental in designing and implementing one of the biggest changes in its history, the Mercado Integrado Latinoamericano (MILA) – an attempt to integrate regional stock exchanges to help promote economic ties as part of the Pacific Alliance. Velandia Rodriguez played a prominent role in advocating for MILA to regulators and corporate interest groups and was one of the senior figures involved in brokering the 2009 agreement to unify the Peruvian, Chilean and Colombian exchanges, allowing investors to operate in all three markets without additional paperwork. The Mexican exchange also joined MILA at a later stage, making it one of the most significant recent economic projects in the region. Prior to joining BVC, Velandia Rodriguez was chief lawyer at the Instituto de Fomento Industrial (IFI), the state financial instrument responsible for promoting industrial production and access to credit for Colombian businesses. He has also served as legal director at Bancoldex, an IFI-affiliated state-owned bank that acts in support of Colombia’s foreign trade aims.