A new leadership for the region: A conversation between Ibero-American leaders

Tiene una amplia trayectoria en el servicio público y privado, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, con especial énfasis en temas de desarrollo e integración regional. Previo a asumir la presidencia de CAF, se desempeñó como director ejecutivo para Colombia en el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Anteriormente ejerció los cargos de ministro de Comercio, Industria y Turismo de Colombia, viceministro de Desarrollo Empresarial y presidente del Directorio de Bancóldex y ProColombia. Fue congresista y presidente del Comité de Asuntos Económicos de la Cámara de Representantes de Colombia.

Epsy Campbell Barr is the vice president of Costa Rica. She was previously the foreign minister and a member of the Costa Rican National Assembly. Campbell has been active in Afro-Caribbean affairs since entering politics. In 1996, she founded the Women’s Forum for Central American Integration, which she coordinated until 2001. Concurrently, she also coordinated the Network of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Women. Campbell has published books and articles on democracy and inclusion, political and economic participation of women, people of African descent, sexism, and racism, among other topics. She is an expert in social development issues, political participation of women of African descent, and equality.

She is a gerontologist from the Public University of Quindío and has a degree in foreign languages ​​from the Public University of Valle. He obtained scholarships to study at Georgetown University, in the United States, where he participated in a competitiveness program for Latin America, and to do a master's degree in Government and Public Policy at ICESI University, awarded by the Manos Visibles corporation, the IDB, the Ford Foundation and the Korean Poverty Reduction Fund. She was coordinator of the International Cooperation Office of the Cauca Government, and in 2020 she became the first elected mayor of the city of Timbiquí, a municipality in the Pacific region of Cauca.

Christian Asinelli is a political scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), has a Master's degree in Public Administration and Policy from the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA) and postgraduate degrees in Urban Economics (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and in Sociourbana Management (FLACSO). In 2019, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from the National University of San Martín (Argentina). During the last sixteen years he has been appointed in different roles in the public sector and the international arena: Alternate National Director of the State Modernization Project at the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2005); Deputy of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2007-2010); Undersecretary of Evaluation of Projects with External Financing of the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2011-2014); Corporate Director of Institutional Development of CAF (2014-2017); President of the Fundación Banco Ciudad (2019) and Undersecretary of International Financial Relations for Development, Secretariat of Strategic Affairs, Presidency of the Nation. He was a Fellow of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program (2010), the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies-MIT (2011) and the Singularity University Executive Program (2017). He is the author of the books Buenos Aires: The city we have, the city we want (Buenos Aires, 2009); Modernization of the Argentine State: policies, management and professional scene (Buenos Aires, Edition, 2015) and Financing Development: The role of multilateral banking in Latin America (Buenos Aires, 2021).