[1] Saint Malo has extensive experience on the global agenda and is a strong voice in improving human development, gender equality, eradicating poverty, and addressing social inequality.

She supervised a team of 25 professionals directly and over 50 executing units; and handled strategic planning, budget, cash flow, quality assurance, and negotiations with government officials, donors, and third parties.

[5] An outsider to politics and the top echelons of government, Saint Malo––an independent––was invited by then candidate Juan Carlos Varela, to run as vice president, under the Panameñista and Popular Party tickets.

Eventually, Varela and Saint Malo won the 2014 elections and were installed into Office inviting civil society leaders and independents to join the Cabinet.

[7] As Minister of Foreign Affairs, she successfully implemented the modernization and institutional strengthening of the Ministry, with the objective of encouraging professionalism in Panamanian diplomacy.

[9] Saint Malo promoted anti-corruption and transparency efforts at the national level, including legislation reform and ethics training and oversight.

[12] Upon the end of her mandate as vice president, Saint Malo was invited and selected by Harvard University for a fellowship at the Institute of Politics of the Kennedy School of Government for the 2019 Fall Semester.

[13] For her contributions in building national consensus over two decades, Isabel Saint Malo received the Woman of the Year award in 2012, given by the Panamanian Business Executives Association, APEDE.

[14] She was also the first Latin American to be distinguished by the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace of the Hebrew University of Israel, for the role played by the Government of the Republic of Panama preparing the stage for the historic meeting between the presidents of Cuba and the United States, during the VII Summit of the Americas in April 2015.