 In 2001 she became President of the Banking and Financial Institutions Association of Colombia, ASOBANCARIA.Cárdenas has served on numerous boards as representative of the Minister of Finance including being the Joint Administrator of the Institute of Social Insurances, the Committee of Credit of the National Energy Finance, and the Plan of Integrated Rural Development.From 1996 to 1997, she was on the Board of Fiduciary Bogotá, from 2000 to 2006 Crafts of Colombia as the representative of the President of the Republic, from 2001 to 2006 the Board of the National Fund of Guarantees Co Ltd. She was also on the Board of Latin American Federation of Banks - FELABAN from 2002 to 2006, and the Modern Art Museum of Bogota from 2004-2006.