Izabella Teixeira
Izabella Teixeira has served as Brazil’s minister of the environment since 2010. A biologist and Ph.D in environmental planning, minister Teixeira is a career employee of the Brazilian institute for Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), which she joined in 1984 as an environmental analyst. Throughout her nearly three decades of service, she has held … Read more
Meg Symington
Symington is senior director for the Amazon on the World Wildlife Fund-U.S. Forest Team. She began her career in conservation studying tropical ecology and primate behavior in the Amazon.
Juliana Barbassa
Juliana Barbassa was the former managing editor for Americas Quarterly. An award-winning independent journalist, Barbassa is the author of Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink, based on her years as Rio de Janeiro correspondent for the Associated Press.
Pedro R. Pierluisi
Congressman Pedro R. Pierluisi is Puerto Rico’s nonvoting delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives and a candidate for governor of Puerto Rico.
Andrew H. Cummins
Andrew H. Cummins is the founder of Explorador Capital Management, LLC, an investment firm focused exclusively on Latin America.
Camila Bustos
Camila Bustos is a researcher at Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab and lead researcher at the think tank Nivela.
Gillian Steward
Ms. Steward is a Calgary-based journalist. She currently writes a regular column for the Toronto Star, teaches journalism at Mount Royal University, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication Studies at University of Calgary. She was the managing editor at the Calgary Herald from 1987 to 1990, and was the publisher/editor of Alberta Views Magazine 2006/2007. As a … Read more
Robert Muggah
Muggah is a co-founder and research director of the Igarapé Institute, a leading think tank in Brazil. He is also co-founder of the SecDev Group and SecDev Foundation, digital security and risk analysis groups with global reach.
Fatima Shama
Fatima Shama served as New York City commissioner of immigrant affairs from 2009 to 2014.
Mauricio Savarese
Mauricio Savarese is a political reporter and blogger based in São Paulo.
Cecilia Nahón
Cecilia Nahón is Argentina’s ambassador to the U.S.
Katitza Rodriguez
Katitza Rodriguez is the international rights director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Roberto Azevêdo
Roberto Azevêdo is the director-general of the World Trade Center.
Gustavo Setrini
Gustavo Setrini is assistant professor of food studies at New York University.
Sebastián Marambio
Sebastián Marambio is the founder and executive director of Fundación Educacional Consejo de Curso.
