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Marcelo A. Ostria is an entrepreneur, strategist, consultant, resolution manager and speaker. He possesses a diverse array of life and professional experiences by living in four different continents, providing him a multidimensional perspective of society and global affairs. Marcelo looks to engage in cross-sector collaboration aimed at fostering innovative and pragmatic sustainable impact. He is currently finishing writing a research book on comparative child welfare and serves as Customer Resolution Manager at TIAA. Additionally, Marcelo served as a diplomat at the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he assumed major responsibility in the area of U.S.-Bolivian relations. He also regularly advised the Minister of Foreign Affairs on various foreign-policy matters under a $60+ million ministry budget. Marcelo led efforts to create a new Unit of Foreign Policy Analysis at the ministry, where he served as a Foreign Policy Researcher. Moreover, he was chosen as the diplomatic liaison for the United States Delegation participating in the 2020 Bolivian Presidential Inauguration. Previously, Marcelo served at the Embassy of the State of Kuwait in Washington, D.C, where he oversaw and coordinated a portfolio of more than 130 graduate Kuwaiti graduate students studying in the United States and interpreted Kuwaiti government education, legislation, and regulations for relevant scholarship-specific procedures. Prior to that, Marcelo has developed supplier diversity strategies for major corporations, including AARP and Nielsen Holdings Inc. as a Strategy Fellow at Future Partners, LLC. He also mapped data for existing minority-owned private equity and asset firms, identified multiple strategic partnerships, and developed a strategic awards database for AARP’s diversity platform under a $128 million supplier biding budget. Furthermore, Marcelo displayed public service commitment early in his career, interning at the highest levels of Federal Government offices, including the White House. Marcelo holds a Master of Science degree in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar. He also obtained two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and International Studies from the University of North Texas -- graduating in the top 1% as a Distinguished Honors Scholar and nationally selected into USA Today's All-USA College Academic Team.

Listed skills include Community Outreach, Policy Analysis, Public Policy, Non Profits, and 42 others.