Erika Mouynes

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Translating geopolitical risk into portfolio decisions

Wall Street veteran. Former Foreign Minister. I built Pixbae Advisory to bridge the gap between how governments make decisions and how investors should prepare for them.

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01 About

About

Where Wall Street meets
Foreign Relations

Most political risk advisors come from one world. I've operated at senior levels in three: global finance, government, and academia.

On Wall Street, I spent nearly two decades as a C-suite executive at a multi-billion-dollar investment firm and as a senior attorney at Shearman & Sterling LLP — structuring cross-border deals, M&A, and infrastructure projects across emerging markets.

As Panama's Foreign Minister, I saw first-hand how government decisions reshape the regulatory environments, trade flows, and sovereign risk profiles that determine whether an investment delivers or destroys value.

Today I run Pixbae Advisory Strategies, helping investors integrate geopolitical analysis into portfolio construction. I serve on the Board of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and as a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics.

PIXBAE ADVISORY STRATEGIES

Co-Founder & CEO. Helping institutional investors, asset managers, and family offices integrate geopolitical risk into portfolio construction and emerging market allocation.

INVESTMENT & LEGAL

C-Suite executive at a multi-billion investment company. Senior attorney at Shearman & Sterling LLP. Cross-border M&A, structured finance, emerging market infrastructure.

GOVERNMENT

62nd Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Panama. First-hand experience in trade negotiations, regulatory frameworks, and sovereign risk dynamics.

ACADEMIC & INSTITUTIONAL

Board Member, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (confirmed by current U.S. administration). Former Chair, Atlantic Council Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow. Harvard IOP Resident Fellow.

Approach

I work with investors, corporations, and boards to decode the political dynamics that determine the market outcomes in emerging economies.

Political Risk Assessment

Analyzing regulatory shifts, sovereign decisions, and institutional dynamics, not from the outside looking in, but with the pattern recognitiion that comes from having sat inside a government making those decisions.

Investment Strategy

Translating political intelligence into portfolio-level implications - identifying which geopolitical scnearios create assymmetric risk or opportunity accross asset classes and geographies.

Stakeholder Navigation

Guiding corporations through the complex stakeholder landscpaes of emerging markets - government relations, community dynamics, and the trust architectures that determine whether a deal survives contact with reality.

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