Hon. Alejandro Carlos Chacón Camargo
Alejandro Calderón
Alejandro Calderon focuses his efforts on identifying and creating strategic collaborations and synergies, to bring ideas into projects mainly around climate change, gender equality, and the creative & circular economies. He has more than 15 years of experience in the financial sector with J.P. Morgan (Paris, Geneva, London and New York) and Morgan Stanley (New […]
Ryan Brennan
Ryan Brennan is Vice President for the Office of Investment Policy at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). In this role, he leads a team that measures the expected developmental impact of proposed projects and monitors active projects to ensure they are environmentally and socially sustainable, respect human rights and encourage positive host country development […]
Guillermo Botero Nieto
Abogado de la Universidad de los Andes, en donde también fue docente. Es un empresario con amplia experiencia, quien ha combinado el ejercicio del derecho, con actividades empresariales en áreas de comercio exterior, operación logística y paralelamente siempre ha estado vinculado a las actividades gremiales. En su actividad empresarial se destaca la exportación de flores […]
Dr. Oscar Alberto Bernal Acevedo
Physician with a Ph.D from the University Autonoma in Barcelona, Spain, an MPH from Tulane University, an MA in Social Services Project Planning from the University of Coruña, Spain and a medical degree from the University of Antioquia, Colombia. Dr. Bernal has more than 15 years of experience living and working in developing countries including […]
Felipe Bayón Pardo
Felipe Bayón Pardo, 52, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ecopetrol Group, the largest oil and gas conglomerate in Colombia, and the fourth most important in Latin America. Bayón holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad de los Andes, and has over 26 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Between […]
Cynthia Arnson
Dr. Cynthia J. Arnson is director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is a widely-recognized expert on Latin American politics, political economy, and international relations, including U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere. She is quoted frequently in major U.S. and Latin American media and has testified on numerous […]
José Aguirre
José Aguirre is an Industrial Engineer from Universidad de los Andes with a focus on finance and organizational development, with more than 11 years of experience in consulting and management of social organizations and specialized in project management. He started his professional career in the social and entrepreneurship sectors as an associate consultant of Corporación […]
Hon. Mark Green
Ambassador Mark Green (ret.) served as the President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Congressionally chartered, scholarship driven foreign policy institution until April 1, 2025. He has served as the Administrator of the US Agency for International Development where he used America’s development and humanitarian tools to help countries on […]
H.E. Marta Lucía Ramírez Blanco
Elected Senator of Colombia in 2006, Ramírez introduced legislative initiatives to permit women to attain the rank of General in the Military Forces of Colombia, and to mandate English teaching in schools. Ramírez was Colombia’s first female Minister of National Defence, serving from 2002 to 2003 in the administration of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, and […]
H.E. Iván Duque Márquez
Iván Duque was the youngest elected President in Colombia’s history at the age of 41 in 2018. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Transformational Distinguished Fellow at Oxford University, a Distinguished Fellow at WRI, a Leadership Fellow at FIU, a Distinguished Fellow at the Bezos Earth Fund, and an Ambassador for the World Coalition for Nature. […]