Authors

Casimira Rodríguez, Bolivia’s Minister of Justice from 2006 to 2007, was the first woman and first indigenous person to hold the position.

Kyffin Simpson is CEO of Interamericana Trading Corporation, The Simpson Group of Companies and the SOL Group, the first Caribbean company in the energy industry.

Alberto C. Vollmer is CEO of Ron Santa Teresa, Venezuela’s leading rum producer, and founder of Proyecto Alcatraz, a rehabilitation program for criminals.

Celso Amorim was Brazil’s foreign minister from 1993-1995 and from 2003-2011.

Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan is an international consultant based in Washington, D.C. A board member of the Americas Society, he is the former Mexican ambassador to the U.S. (2007-13) and a career diplomat for more than 20 years. He served as Mexican consul general in New York and chief of policy planning at the Mexican foreign … Read more

Dr. Martín von Hildebrand is the director of Fundación Gaia Amazonas.

Oscar Arias Sánchez is serving his second term as president of Costa Rica and is the 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate.

Adriana Cisneros de Griffin is vice president, office of the chairman and CEO of Cisneros Group of Companies and vice chairman of the Fundación Cisneros.

Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira is a writer, former president of Brazil’s Council of Women’s Rights and founder and president of the Women’s Leadership Center in Rio de Janeiro.

Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter is chairman of the Gerdau Board of Directors.

Phil Fontaine is National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada.

Cristina Eguizábal is a Central American political scientist and is currently director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University.

Victor Leonel Juan Martínez is a lawyer and journalist and is currently director of the magazine En Marcha, published in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Ana Vilma Albanez de Escobar is currently the vice president of El Salvador.

Marcos Galperín created MercadoLibre in 1999 and has served as CEO and director since the company started.