Carolina Castro

Carolina Castro (born 1979 ) is an Argentine businessperson and trade unionist. She was the first woman to join the Executive Committee of the Argentine Industrial Union and was named by the BBC as one its 100 Women in 2020.

Biography Castro has a degree in political science from the University of Buenos Aires. During the government of Mauricio Macri, she served as the undersecretary in the Ministry of Production, for small and medium-sized businesses. During G20 in 2018 she worked on the global business forum strand.

In 2019 she was elected by the Asociación de Fábricas Argentinas de Componentes (Association of Argentine Component Factories, AFAC) to represent the automotive sector on the executive committee of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA).

Castro is the third generation to work in the family business, Industrias Guidi, which manufactures automotive components and supplies them to Toyota and General Motors.

Awards Castro was named as one of the BBC 100 Women of the Year, in 2020.