About me

Doer - Thinker - System Thinker

My name is Gianina Caballero (you can pronounce it “ka-buh-yeh-roh”). I work across complex systems, governance, and the decisions that shape how organisations and institutions move forward.

I began my career researching markets, and from the start it felt natural. What has always driven me is the same: I want to dive into systems, decompose them, understand them, reconstruct them, question them. Finding what existing instruments cannot see, that is what blows my mind, every time.

That lens has taken me across two national governments, major programmes in infrastructure, climate, sustainability, and sustainable finance, and bilateral work between the UK and Peru at senior institutional level, including leading the UK-Peru Infrastructure Task Force and overseeing the Global Infrastructure Programme (GIP), where projects ranged from national infrastructure strategy to a cross-government digital transformation initiative.

I hold an MSc in Major Programme Management from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. I have submitted written evidence to UK parliamentary committees, including the Public Accounts Committee, the Business and Trade Committee, and the APPG on Project Delivery, with work cited in official reports.

At the moment, my focus is on AI adoption and governance, working as Managing Director of an AI governance advisory boutique firm, helping organisations build the foundations that turn AI investment into real productivity and value for money.

I also produce independent research and policy recommendations on how organisations, sectors, and systems navigate complex challenges. That work informs my advisory practice and contributes to broader conversations on AI governance, organisational decision-making, and the structural conditions that shape how knowledge becomes action.

Yet there is another side. Having the opportunity to lead programmes, coordinating across teams, backgrounds, countries and languages, navigating deadlines, influencing stakeholders, solving problems in motion, that is what makes me feel alive in a different way. The intellectual and the operational sides of me feed each other.

I collaborate in different ways depending on the context. With organisations, as a thought partner on AI adoption and governance and as a programme leader on complex transformation initiatives. With boards and senior leadership, bringing independent judgement and a systemic lens to strategic decisions. With researchers and institutions, as a collaborator on topics at the intersection of AI governance, truth and knowledge in organisations, and decision-making under uncertainty. With fellowship and academic programmes, as an independent researcher and practitioner contributing to policy-relevant work.

If any of this resonates, or you want to explore my work and thinking more deeply, I would love to connect.

Organisations today have more knowledge than ever, and less clarity about what to do with it, the gap is structural. What most organisations are still building is knowing: the capacity to interpret what any of that actually means for their context, their decisions, and what comes next and that is the work I keep coming back to.