About

Silvia Barrero serves as the current vice president for legal and corporate affairs at Coca Cola’s Latin America arm Coca-Cola FEMSA. A graduate from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Universidad de Los Andes, Barrero briefly worked at the law firm Philippi, Prietocarrizosa & Uría, whilst completing her degree in commercial law, before joining Avantel, a private Colombian telecommunications company in her first in-house role. After one year there, Barrero joined her current employer, where she has worked for the last 13 years. Apart from supporting all legal and corporate activities and successfully handling external communications, Barrero has been instrumental in her coordination of important social responsibility programs for Coca-Cola FEMSA that have had an immense positive impact on the reputation of the company in Colombia. Under Barrero’s leadership, legal and corporate affairs at the company have received positive reviews internally for high quality of service and she has been frequently praised for her ability to handle incidents and crisis situations on behalf of the company. In addition to her legal role at Coca-Cola FEMSA, Barrero provides advice on strategic projects for the organisation.