Irene Zurborn
Director of International Projects, CEDDET Foundation, Spain
International Training Project Director at CEDDET Foundation
Irene Zurborn has over fifteen years of experience working in the field of professional training, with a focus on the development of e-learning programs for international organizations. She started as a coordinator of several face-to-face training projects for Latin America, Africa and Asia at the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (now GIZ), but since 2003 she has been managing different online training projects at CEDDET for institutions like the WB, AECID, FAO, EU, IADB, among others. She has also launched the first virtual alumni communities of the WB program and worked as an e-learning consultant for projects in Eastern Europe and Mercosur. At present she is managing the IADB Capacity Building Training on Integration in collaboration with CEDDET aimed at professionals working in the fields of economic integration and international trade in the LAC region.
As a life-long learner she is particularly interested in education technology, open innovation and promoting meaningful conversations applying the Art of Hosting practices and Theory U. She has a degree in economics from Universidad Católica Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1987) and an international MBA from S.D.A. Bocconi (Milan, 1993). Before joining CEDDET she worked over ten years as a business consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Roland Berger & Partner, and as an international business manager for ZARA (Inditex Group).