Authors

Mohamed A. El-Erian is CEO of PIMCO and author of When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change, winner of the 2008 FT/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award.

Francisco Gil Díaz is CEO of Telefónica for Mexico and Central America and was the secretary of finance of Mexico from 2000 to 2006.

Pamela Cox is World Bank vice-president for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Carroll Bogert is a former foreign correspondent for Newsweek, has been associate director of Human Rights Watch since 2003.

John Hope Byrant is the founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, America’s first nonprofit social investment banking organization. He currently serves as vice chairman of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy as well as chairman of the Council Committee on the Under-Served in President Barack Obama’s administration.

Alvaro Vargas Llosa is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute’s Center on Global Prosperity

Felipe Agüero is a program officer of the Andean region and Southern Cone at the Ford Foundation.

Javier La Rosa is the coordinator in the access to justice area at the Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL) in Peru.

Alan Poole is an independent energy consultant based in Washington DC and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has been working with issues of energy efficiency and non-fossil energy supply for more than 35 years.

Dr. David Jhirad is the special advisor on energy and climate change at the Rockefeller Foundation. He served as deputy assistant secretary of energy in the Clinton Administration and as vice president of science and research at the World Resources Institute.

Mark Tercek is the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy.

William K. Reilly is a founding partner of Aqua International Partners, LP, a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies engaged in water and renewable energy, and a senior advisor to TPG Capital, LP, an international investment partnership.

Eduardo Bartolomé is the executive director for Logistics, Project Management and Sustainability for Vale dos Rios, Inc. in Brazil.

John Fetterman is the Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania. He co-founded Cap Solution, a campaign to cap carbon emissions to produce manufacturing jobs.

Hal Harvey is the CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation.