Speakers

Siegrid is a Partner and Founding Member of Instiglio, leading its work in Latin America and the Caribbean. With over a decade of experience, she has designed results-based financing (RBF) mechanisms and performance management projects across 15+ countries. She has led teams in pioneering RBF initiatives, including the first Social Impact Bond in a low- or middle-income country (Colombia) and a $300 million Performance-Based Intergovernmental Transfer system in Egypt. Her expertise spans early childhood development, education, health, workforce development, governance, and conservation. She works with governments, multilaterals, and donors to enhance the impact of development programs through outcomes-based approaches.

Dr. Martín Sabignoso is a health financing expert. He was Deputy Minister at the National Ministry of Health in Argentina (from December 2019 to February 2021). He is also senior advisor for the Inter-American Development Bank and consultant of the Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing of WHO on health system reforms, intergovernmental transfers, and strategic health purchasing schemes. Former CEO of Plan Nacer and Programa Sumar in Argentina, an innovative large-scale results-based financing health policy. In recent years, he has provided technical assistance in health financing reforms and health system strengthening to more than 20 countries including Uruguay, Mexico, Perú, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, India, Indonesia, among others.

María Laura Tinelli is the Director and Founder of Acrux Partners, an impact investment intermediary and market developer focused in South America. She founded and heads the Impact Investment National Advisory Board for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. She is an Investment Committee Member for NXTP Impact Investment Fund in Latin America. Together with Social Finance UK, Acrux and the IADB has structured the first Social Impact Bond for Argentina in 2018, and is currently working on the second one. She currently serves as Impact Investment advisor to the UNPRI.

Mara works on shaping the public sector strategy at the Schwab Foundation for Social Enterprise, focusing on engaging public social innovators, strengthening government partnerships, and advancing public-private collaboration. She also supports the use of data to help stakeholders learn from shared experiences.

Previously, she was Academic Co-Director of the Government Outcomes Lab at the University of Oxford. With two decades of experience, she specialises in applying academic insights to decision-making for social impact, particularly in outcomes-based funding across governments, foundations, and international development.

She is an experienced decision modeller with a strong interest in impact metrics and data-driven decision-making.