Zenaida Hernandez Uriz is a Senior Private Sector Specialist with the Investment Climate Unit of the World Bank Group's Finance, Competitiveness, and Investment Global Department. She has over 20 years of experience working across World Bank Group regions in lending and advisory projects to help governments address constraints to private investment. She has a track record supporting client governments to identify and reduce regulatory and institutional barriers in the business environment. Before joining the World Bank, Zenaida worked in international business consulting and export promotion in the public and private sectors. Zenaida has a Master of Science in Foreign Service, with major in development, from Georgetown University.