Ariane Di Iorio

Ariane Di Iorio​ is the Director of the Financial Institutions Group of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group. 

Previously Ms. Di Iorio was the Chief Investment Officer responsible for the International Finance Corporation (IFC)’s Global Distressed Asset Recovery Program (DARP). Besides this role, she held other responsibilities in IFC in the Financial Institutions Group, such as Global Portfolio Manager, Regional Portfolio Manager for Latin America, Regional Industry Manager for South Asia, and she led the FIG business in Brazil. Ms. Di Iorio was also IFC’s nominee director on the board of the Sustainability Index of B3, one of the world’s largest financial market infrastructure companies. 

Prior joining IFC in 2011, she was the Deputy Secretary of Finance of Rio Municipality and the CEO of Previ-Rio, where she did the debt restructuring of the municipality with IBRD and improved the governance, efficiency, and investment policies of its pension fund. In addition, she held leadership positions at banks, such as Director of International Proprietary Trading for Arab Banking Corporation subsidiary in Brazil and Head of International Sales of Bradesco Investment Bank arm. She was also senior trader at Banco Itaú in New York and São Paulo.

Ms. Di Iorio holds a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics and bachelor’s degree in economics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.