Abdiel Santiago

Abdiel Santiago is the Secretariat (CEO/CIO) of the Fondo de Ahorro de Panamá (Panama’s Sovereign Wealth Fund), a ~$1.4bn investment vehicle for stabilization and intergenerational wealth-creation.

He has over 20 years of financial experience in the financial sector, including executive roles in equity investment research, investment banking, restructuring and financial regulation.

Prior to his current role, he was an equity investment research executive at Morgan Stanley in New York covering the energy and industrial sectors (over $200bn in market cap.) and worked in teams that consistently ranked No. 1 in equity research. Earlier in his career, Santiago served as a financial analyst at the US Securities & Exchange Commission overseeing financial/regulatory matters at broker-dealers and asset managers, and also served in the US Air Force.

Santiago is a Board Leadership Fellow with The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), Washington, D.C.

He received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver.