Cara Santos Pianesi

Cara Santos Pianesi

External Affairs Lead

Cara has helped organizations communicate clearly to garner attention for issues of international development for more than 20 years. She is currently a External Affairs Lead at the World Bank Group. She previously worked at the United Nations Development Program, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Amnesty International.

She moved to Washington, DC from Miami where she concentrated on private-sector communications vis-à-vis Latin America with Foote, Cone, and Belding. Cara has a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in International Studies and Economics from the University of Miami.