Mr Wilson is Senior Operations Officer with the International Finance Corporation, Financial Institutions Group in Latin America, based in Bogota, Colombia. He has over 20 years-experience in the development of legal, regulatory and technology frameworks for commercial financing and asset-based lending for MSMEs, with special focus on factoring and digital financial instruments. Before joining the IFC, Mr Wilson served as Senior Officer with the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law in Rome, where oversaw legislative reform on securities in emerging markets, and before that, as Principal Officer with the Organization of American States, Washington, DC, where he oversaw Private International Law reforms in the Americas. John has served as consultant to several Latin American governments in reforming local financial legislation, and practiced law in the United States and Mexico.