Vice President, Government Affairs & Policy  

Felipe Rincon’s contributions to the PCDE focus on payments’ regulatory policy, market modernization, new business models, competition, and challenges at the intersection of electronic payments and informality. Before his current position, he led for more than 7 years Mastercard’s Government Affairs & Policy function in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Before joining Mastercard, he has been engaged in a broad range of financial sector matters, including public credit, banking, securities and payments, having held leadership positions in Grupo Bancolombia, the Self-Regulator of the Colombian Stock Market (AMV), the Colombian Stock Exchange, and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit.

He is a lawyer from the Universidad de Los Andes, has a Specialization degree in Financial Legislation from same University, and an LL.M. from the University of Toronto. He has been a professor of economic analysis of law, securities market and payments regulation at the Universities of Los Andes and Javeriana, both in Colombia, and author of academic, policy and analysis documents, including the Stock Market Regime.