23rd CAF Conference

(Peru) is the former Executive President of CAF-Development Bank of Latin America- from 2017 to March 2021, and Minister of Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2009. He was Chief Economist for Latin America and Emerging Markets at BBVA in Spain, and consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank.  

President of the Inter-American Dialogue and an adjunct professor of Latin American politics at Georgetown University. He previously directed the Latin American and Caribbean Program at the National Endowment for Democracy and the Ford Foundation’s Governance and Human Rights Program. Since 1994, Shifter has played a key role in shaping the Dialogue’s agenda, commissioning policy-relevant articles and reports. 

(United States) spent over 30 years in the US Foreign Service, most recently as undersecretary of state for political affairs in the US Department of State. He also served as the US ambassador to Brazil. Currently he is a senior international policy advisor at Arnold & Porter, and co-chair of the Inter-American Dialogue Board of Directors.

He's an operating executive at the Carlyle Group and Chair of the Board of Counselors at McLarty Associates. A retired 4-star Admiral, he led the NATO Alliance in global operations as Supreme Allied Commander, focused on Afghanistan, Libya, the Balkans, and Syria. Prior to that role, he was the Commander for US Southern Command and oversaw the Latin American and Caribbean region.

She is the Mexican Ambassador to the United States. She also served as Mexican Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, the Kingdom of Denmark, and to Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan. She was previously the Director-General of CELAG, and she is a founding member of Desarmex, an NGO promoting education for peace and disarmament.

Is an investigative unit editor for the Argentine national newspaper, La Nación; a columnist for the New York Times en Español, and expert lecturer at the García Márquez Foundation. He is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

She has held roles in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fundación Exportar, and the SGS Group. She was also director general of the Economic Development Ministry at Buenos Aires City Hall.

Is the dean of the law school at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and founding partner of DeJusticia Colombia. She was formerly the special rapporteur for freedom of expression for the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

He is responsible for advising corporations and financial institutions in the Americas on the implications of China’s financial market developments and RMB internationalization. 

Political scientist and was the first woman to be elected president of Costa Rica (2010-2014). Previously, she served as minister of public security (1996-1998), congresswoman (2002-2006), minister of justice (2006-2008), and vice president (2006-2008). During her political career, Mrs. Chinchilla prompted police and justice reform measures to tackle crime and violence, digital and open government, the promotion of women's rights, and early childhood protection. She also promoted environmental sustainability policies, especially on preserving marine biodiversity, for which she was distinguished with international awards.

Isabel de Saint Malo brings extensive international experience working in multilateral organizations, government, and the private sector. Her expertise includes ESG as a critical business issue, sustainability, human capital, corporate social responsibility and human rights in the framework of business risk and opportunity. She is the former Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama, and was the first woman to be elected Vice President and appointed Foreign Minister in her country. Currently, she is Senior Policy Adviser to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Program and a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Foundation for Reporting Standards (IFRS), at a moment when the IFRS is working to deliver a comprehensive baseline of sustainability-related disclosure standards. She serves on the Advisory Board of Institución Internacional SEK, on the Editorial Board of Americas Quarterly, and on the Board of Women Political Leaders Global Forum (WPL). She previously served as independent member of the Board of BBVA Panama. She has led and facilitated over a dozen dialogue and consensus building processes around development issues in Latin America, bringing together diverse views and constructing a common agenda with the participation of different stakeholders. She has advised and supported private sector corporations on their efforts to achieve stakeholder engagement, partnership-building and facilitate the achievement of company goals. Before joining the government of Panama, she founded the Global Shapers hub of Panama City, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. Mrs. Saint Malo has been a champion in sponsoring issues related to transparency in Latin America and gender equality, appointed expert to the Global Agenda Council on Transparency (2014) by the World Economic Forum and leading the Latin American and Caribbean UN Women-ILO-OECD initiative “Equal Pay International Coalition” and the IDB-WEF Gender Parity Taskforce. Following the completion of her government mandate, she was invited as a fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University in 2019 and led a semester long study group on the Sustainable Development Goals and later joined the Advanced Leadership Initiative of the Harvard Business School in 2022, in a one-year program designed to unleash the potential of experienced leaders to solve society ́s most pressing problems. Her career began at the Mission of Panama to the United Nations in New York as one of the youngest delegates to the Third Committee and then served at the United Nations Development Program Office in Panama from 1994 to 2009 on governance, poverty and sustainability issues, rising to manage the program portfolio.

Is an economics professor at the Graduate School of Economics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He is also the director of the Center for Chinese-Mexican Studies at UNAM. He has consulted on projects with ECLAC, ILO, Ford Foundation and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Is the founder and CEO of Mexico Media Lab, a think tank that specializes in the use of information and communication technologies to implement disruptive projects that provoke innovation in both the public and private sector. She is also the author of México 2020: Una guía para entender al país y darle click a tu futuro.

Is a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She previously served as the Minister of Trade in Costa Rica and as the former senior director of the World Bank´s Global Practice on Trade & Competitiveness.

Is a partner at JunHe’s New York office and a member of the firm’s strategy committee. He advises US clients on compliance with Chinese law on issues like anti-bribery, anti-monopoly, labor and employment, and national security. He also acts as outside general counsel for Chinese clients investing in the US.

He has also worked as a journalist in several media outlets and lead emblematic cases related to the right of freedom of expression before the Inter-American Human Rights System

Formerly, she was a correspondent in the US and Germany. She is the author of Lua de Mel em Kobane and the recipient of many awards, including the King of Spain Journalism Prize.

Is the chief economist for the integration and trade sector of the Inter-American Development Bank. Prior to that role, he worked at the Development Bank of Brazil and taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Was the representative of the Dominican Republic in Beijing until 2018. Additionally, she served as vice-minister of the Technical Ministry of the Presidency. She has worked for the European Union, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the UN Development Program as a consultant.

Formerly, she was the communications director at the Center for American Progress, a communications director in the US Congress, and the managing director of Petel & Co.

Is the economics editor at The Banker, a monthly publication of the Financial Times group, for which she oversees the Americas coverage and commissions and writes for the Bracken and Viewpoint opinion columns. She is an honorary fellow in the Department of Economics at the City University of London and an adviser for WILL: Women in Leadership in Latin America.

He writes the Bello column on Latin America for The Economist and is the newspaper’s writer-at-large for the region. He has testified before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British House of Commons.

He previously worked as associate director at the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights and as the president of the Expert Advisory Committee for Electoral Reform in the province of Córdoba from 2007 until 2008.

Ecuadorian journalist holding more than 20 years of experience in broadcast journalism and a Master’s degree in Political Management from the George Washington University. Has also worked as a correspondent of the Ecuadorian network, Ecuavisa, in Washington, D.C. She also directs her own opinion show, “Zoom a la Noticia”.

She was a former Knight JSK Fellow in Journalism at Stanford Unversity. Prior, she worked at Folha de São Paulo, Brazil’s largest newspaper, and was editor at Veja magazine. She is a four-time winner of the Brazil’s Women in Press award and three-time winner of the Comunique- se Award.

Is president of Datanálisis, a survey database specializing in global markets. He is also a professor at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración.