Andrea Grobocopatel is a businesswoman and influential civil society leader who has been advocating for more than two decades to lead responsible and inclusive projects.
At a young age, she became the co-founder of an agribusiness conglomerate that evolved from a small SME into a South American role-model enterprise.
Currently, she is the founder and shareholder of several enterprises, venture capitalist (specially in women led start-ups), president of Ampatel (agricultural and livestock company), and Resiliencia SGR, which provides financial services for entrepreneurs and SMEs, especially women-owned ones.
She is also president and founder of Fundación FLOR, a network that promotes the training and transformation of responsible leaders to build sustainable, diverse, inclusive, and equitable organizations. Its key topics are leadership; responsible organizations; diversity; gender equality. Fundación FLOR has transformed more than 150.000 leaders all over the Global South and 600 organizations. Among them, FLOR has trained more than 1500 women to be directors and 800 entrepreneurs to become businesswomen.
Her career as a gender equality advocate led her to be W20 Argentina Delegate. In the international sphere, she has also participated in the WEF (World Economic Forum), the CSW (Commission on the Status of Women), and other international forums.
She is the first woman to associate at the 1st Rotary Club Buenos Aires founded in 1919. Additionally, she is one of the few women who have been incorporated into the Business Council of the Faculty of Economic Sciences (University of Buenos Aires). She has been a mentor of Vital Voices Global Partnership and is the author of two books, “Pasión por Hacer” (Passion to do) and “Pasion por Reinventarse” (Passion for Reinventing Oneself), sharing personal lessons as a businesswoman.
Grobocopatel was recognized as the Innovative Leader of the Year at the Women in Agribusiness Summit in 2014 and was listed among Apolitical’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in 2018. In 2019, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) highlighted her as one of 20 trailblazing female business leaders from emerging and frontier markets worldwide.
She was recently honored at the IX Leadership for the Americas Awards Gala, organized by The Dialogue, for her exceptional contributions to responsible leadership, gender equality, and the promotion of inclusive organizations. This prestigious recognition further underscores her lasting influence as a visionary leader within both the business community and civil society throughout the Americas.
Grobocopatel holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Buenos Aires and is a recipient of the Cochran Fellowship. Beyond her professional achievements, she is a mother of four, grandmother of one, and has been married to Walter Torchio for more than 30 years.