Luis Sanabria

Biography

Luis Sanabria has over 30 years of experience working at Fundación Paraguaya (FP) in institution building, microfinance, and social development. He oversees the operations of all FP programs by leading a team of 500 people to implement poverty elimination programs, entrepreneurial education and self-sustainable schools in Paraguay and other countries. He also exerts direct supervision to the office in Tanzania and programs in countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia where FP works. Under his leadership, FP has received numerous awards: World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Prize (2009), GDN/Japanese Ministry of Finance prize for Most Innovative Development Project (2009), Nestlé Shared Value Prize (2012), ILO Good Practice in Youth Employment (2014), SPTF/Truelift completed a Microfinance, Social Performance Assessment assigning FP a grade of "Leader Milestone" achieving the highest overall score (2016) and Atlas Network's Think Tank Shark Tank (2022).