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Copyright 2004 World Vision Inc. |  | Corina Villacorta is World Vision’s regional vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean. In this role, Villacorta oversees the implementation of relief and development projects, serving approximately 10 million people in 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Villacorta joined World Vision in 1982 in her native Peru, where she served as a community development facilitator.
From 1985 to 1991, Villacorta held a variety of positions, including founder of a local NGO, which trained women living in Lima’s shantytowns; assistant to the executive director of the Interchurch Fund for International Development in Toronto; assistant to World Vision’s regional coordinator of continuing education; and director of operations for World Vision Peru.
In 1991, she was named national director of World Vision Peru, where she was tasked with phasing out World Vision operations after terrorists killed two staff. Two years later, she moved to Costa Rica to serve as the Latin America regional director of development education.
In 1998 she began work, coordinating curriculum and implementing World Vision’s graduate-level organizational and leadership development programs in partnership with Eastern University. In 2001, she was named associate director of the program.
Villacorta holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences and a license in social work from the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. She also holds a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French and is proficient in Portuguese.
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