María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for El Salvador from 1999 to 2003.
María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila is a Salvadoran lawyer. She is also the first woman to become president of a private bank and an insurance company in El Salvador, as well as the first woman to sit on the Board of the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE). For a decade, she was Head of the pioneering Corporate Sustainability function at HSBC Latin America. She currently heads Inversiones Vision, her executive coaching and consulting firm. She has served as a member of the boards of the International Commission on Missing Persons, Junior Achievement and PLAN International.
