2019 Concordia Americas Summit Speakers

José Manuel Acevedo

Journalist, Noticias RCN

Hon. Alexander Acosta

Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor

Luis Acuña

Director of Governmental Affairs LATAM, GSK CH

Iris Aguilar

Maestra Artesana, Wayuu

José Francisco Aguirre Borda

Executive Director, Fundación Santo Domingo

Gustau Alegret

International Broadcast Journalist, NTN24

H.E. Luis Almagro

Secretary General, Organization of American States (OAS)

Gloria Alonso

Director, Department of National Planning, Colombia

H.E. Olga Margarita Alvarado Rodríguez

Second Vice President, Republic of Honduras

Hugh Aprile

Colombia Country Director, Mercy Corps

Alicia Arango Olmos

Former Ambassador of Colombia to the United Nations in Geneva

Luis Ernesto Araujo

Partner, Prestigio

Andrés Arizkorreta

Chairman & CEO, CAF

Christine Armario

Journalist, The Associated Press

Eduardo Atehortua

Head of LATAM, PRI

Dr. Brigitte L.G. Baptiste Ballera

Directora, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Hum...

Germán Barragán Agudelo

Project Manager, Fundación Corona

Juan Manuel Barrientos

Founder & Chef, El Cielo Restaurant

Andrea Barrios

PRI Portfolio Manager, The Rockefeller Foundation

Alice Beccaro

Coordinator Multi Donor Trust Fund for Sustaining Peace, United Nations

Andrea Bernal

Directora programas de opinión

Hon. Michael Blake

Founder & CEO, Atlas Strategy Group

Ana Blanco

Co-Founder & Principal, LinkUP Global

Ricardo Blanco

CEO, Coquecol S.A.C.I

Julio Borges

Ambassador of Venezuela to the Lima Group, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Guillermo Botero Nieto

Minister of National Defense, Colombia

Kimberly Breier

Assistant Secretary - Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of S...

Ryan Brennan

Vice President - Office of Investment Policy, Overseas Private Investment Corpor...

Brigadier General Juan Carlos Buitrago Arias

Director General, Policia Fiscal y Aduanera

Neil Brown

Managing Director, KKR Global Institute and KKR Infrastructure

Carmen Busquets

Entrepreneur, Strategic Investor & Philanthropist

Jaime Caballero Uribe

Chief Financial Officer, Ecopetrol

Oscar Cadena

Head of Public Affairs for the Andean Region, Uber

Alejandro Calderón

Founder - Strategic Collaborations, ValueSkies / Looking for the Masters

H.E. Epsy Campbell Barr

Vice President, Republic of Costa Rica

Fernando Carrillo

Inspector General, Republic of Colombia

Cordell Carter

Executive Director, Socrates Program, Aspen Institute

Santiago Castro

President, Consejo Gremial Nacional ASOBANCARIA

Ruby Helena Chagui Spath

Senator, Centro Democrático, Republic of Colombia

Miguel Ángel Charria

CEO, Bancamia

H.E. Laura Chinchilla

Co-Chair, Concordia Leadership Council & Former President, Republic of Costa Ric...

Germán Chullmir

Chief Executive Officer, Orel Energy Group

Mauricio Claver-Carone

President, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Sylvia Constaín Rengifo

Minister of Information and Communications Technologies, Republic of Colombia

Juan Viente Contreras

Gerente, La Hicotea Factoria

Mónica Contreras Esper

General Manager, PepsiCo Colombia

Carlos Felipe Córdoba Larrarte

CONTRALORÍA GENERAL DE LA REPÚBLICA

María Corina Machado

Political Activist, Venezuela

Hon. Carlos Curbelo

Principal, Vocero

Juan Manuel Daza Iguarán

Congressman, Centro Democrático, Republic of Colombia

Vanessa de la Torre

Anchor, Caracol News

Tania Delgado Barón

Culture Director, Colciencias

Amb. Paula J. Dobriansky, Ph.D.

Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Senior Fellow, Harvard Unive...

Cecilia Duque Duque

Consultora Cultura y Desarollo, Looking for the Masters

H.E. Iván Duque Márquez

Former President, Republic of Colombia

Dr. Alberto Escobar

Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase & Co

Andrea Escobar Vilá

Director of Semana Education, Semana

Roberto Mario Esmeral Berrio

Vice Minister of Territory Environmental Regulation, Ministry of Environment and...

Santiago Fainstein

Customer Advisory Director, Latin America, SAS

Sergio Figueredo

Executive Director, Choco4Peace

Alan Fleischmann

Founder, President & CEO, Laurel Strategies

Juan Fonseca (Via Video)

Musical Artist

Pilar Frank-O’Leary

Founder & President, PFO Advisory Group

Ana María Fries Martínez

Director, Artesanías de Colombia

Dr. Ignacio Gaitán Villegas

President & CEO, iNNpulsa Colombia

Helena Garcia

General Vice President, Colombian Private Council on Competitiveness

Elliot Gerson

Executive Vice President, Aspen Institute

Victor Giraldo

Director of Biodiversity and Environmental Assessment Products, South Pole

Congresswoman Juanita María Goebertus Estrada

Partido Verde

Jorge Andrés Gomez

Vice President, Quadratyx

Lucas Gomez

Technical Director of Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policy, National Plann...

Daniel Gonzales

Program Officer, OSF

Hon. Mark Green

President and CEO, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Rafael Guarín Cotrino

Presidential Security Advisor, Office of the President,

Avnish Gungadurdoss

Managing Partner, Instiglio

Claudia Gurisatti

Journalist, General Director, NTN24

Federico Gutiérrez Zuluaga

Mayor, Medellín

Greg Henderson

Senior Director of the Fraud and Security Intelligence Global Practice, SAS

Fabián Hernández Ramírez

President and CEO, Telefónica Movistar Colombia

Martin Herrera

Chief Innovation Officer, Guaicaramo SAS

Congressman French Hill

U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 2nd Congressional District

Eduardo Jaramillo

Chief Executive Officer, General Electric Colombia

Dr. Claudia Jiménez Ph.D.

Executive Director, GDIAM

Cydney Justman

Latin America Programmes Manager, Direct Relief

Axel Kaiser

Executive Director, Fundación para el Progreso

Derek Kan

Under Secretary of Transportation Policy, United States of America

Donna Karan

Fashion Icon and Philanthropist; Founder, Donna Karan International and Urban Ze...

Megan Kashner

Professor & Director of Social Impact, Kellogg School of Management at Northwest...

Justin Kintz

Sr. Director of Policy and Communications, Uber

Craig Kowalik

Director, Global Affairs Canada, Development Cooperation

Juanita Kremer

Director, “La Nube”, Blu Radio

H.E. Luis Alberto Lacalle

Former President, Republic of Uruguay

Maria Claudia Lacouture

Former Minister, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism

Luc Lapointe

CEO & Founder, TheBC.lab

Irma Llano Pereira

National Delegate, The Specialized Cybercrime Unit, Republic of Paraguay

María Victoria Llorente

Director, Fundación Ideas para la Paz

Nicholas Logothetis

Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board, Concordia

Maria López Castaño

CEO, Grupo Semana

Brigadier General Fabio Hernán López Cruz

Director, Dirección de Carabineros y Seguridad Rural - Policía Nacional

Juan Fernando Lucio

Director, One Earth Future Foundation/PASO Colombia

Bruce MacMaster

President, ANDI

Pete Marocco

Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operatio...

Cesar Eugenio Martinez Restrepo

Representative, Centro Democrático, Republic of Colombia

Hon. Néstor Humberto Martínez

Attorney General, Republic of Colombia

Annie Mayol Del Valle

President & COO, Foundation for Puerto Rico

Brynne McNulty Rojas

Trustee, McNulty Foundation

Roberto Mercade

President of the Latin Center Business Unit, The Coca-Cola Company

Christina Michelsen

Executive Director, Reconciliación Colombia

Julia Miranda

Director, Parques Nacionales de Colombia

Lina Maria Montoya

President, Bancolombia Foundation

Nate Mook

CEO, World Central Kitchen

Luis Alberto Moreno

President, Inter-American Development Bank

Victor Manuel Muñoz Rodríguez

Presidential Advisor of Economics Affairs and Digital Transformation, Republic o...

Felipe Muñoz

Gerente Frontera con Venezuela, Presidencia de Colombia

Dr. Sreerama Murthy

CEO & Chief Data Scientist, Quadratyx

Dr. Juan Camilo Nariño Alcocer

President, Association of Colombian Mining

Carlos Alfonso Negret Mosquera

Ombudsman, Republic of Colombia

Amb. John D. Negroponte

Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates

Sally Ng

Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs, NBCUniversal International

Francisco Noguera

Manager, Social Prosperity Unit, Ecopetrol

H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo

Chairman, The Brenthurst Foundation | Former President, Federal Republic of Nige...

Martin Obst

President, MO Strategies, Inc.

Guillermo Ocampo Sequeda

National Technology Officer, Microsoft Colombia

Ángela María Orozco

Minister of Transportation, Republic of Colombia

Catalina Ortiz Lalinde

Congresswoman, Partido Verde, Republic of Colombia

Ricardo Andrés Ospina Beltrán

Journalist, Caracol Television

Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón, Ph.D.

President Emeritus, Miami Dade College

Kenneth Paxton

51st Attorney General, State of Texas

Maria Paz Gaviria

Director, ARTBO

Kristie Pellechia

Managing Director for Latin America, Overseas Private Investment Group

Salvador Pérez Galindo

Vice Presidente Relaciones de Gobierno America Latina y El Caribe, Visa

Carlos Perez Garcia

Minister of Energy & Non-Renewable Natural Resources, Republic of Ecuador

Hon. Rick Perry

Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Gen. (Ret.) David H. Petraeus

Chairman, KKR Global Institute

Ernesto Piedras

CEO, The Competitive Intelligence Unit

Amb. Juan Carlos Pinzón

President, ProBogotá; Former Ambassador to the U.S., Republic of Colombia

Santiago Pinzón Galán

Vice President of Digital Transformation, ANDI

Rafael Puyana Martínez

Vice President, Private Council of Competitiveness

H.E. Jorge-Tuto Fernando Quiroga

Former President, Plurinational State of Bolivia

H.E. Marta Lucía Ramírez Blanco

Vice President of the Republic of Colombia

Hon. Sean Reyes JD

Attorney General, The State of Utah

Nicole Riggs

Founder, MAKE IT HAPPEN

Andres Rodriguez

Vice President, Fiduagraria

Carolina Rojas Hayes

Vice Minister of Mines, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Republic of Colombia

Julio Rojas Sarmiento

Chief Financial Officer, Banco de Bogotá

Lina Rossi

Andean Chapter Manager, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs

Nikima Royer Jno Baptiste

Chief Executive Officer, Digicel Dominica

H.E. María Juliana Ruiz Sandoval

First Lady, Republic of Colombia

Oscar Sarria

Co-Founder & COO, Chiper

Senator Rick Scott

State of Florida, United States Senate

Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

Principal, JSG Strategy

Hon. Horacio José Serpa

Senator-Elect, Republic of Colombia

Robert Skinner

Executive Director, Office for Partnerships, United Nations Office for Partnersh...

David Smolansky

Secretary General Envoy for Venezuelan Migration and Refugee Crisis, Organizatio...

Claudia Sterling

Head of Legal & Public Affairs, Cruz Verde

María Fernanda Suárez Londoño

Minister of Mines and Energy, Republic of Colombia

Matthew Swift

Co-Founder, President & CEO, Concordia

León Teicher

Chairman, Continental Gold

Carol Thompson O’Connell

Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. ...

Kevin Thurm

Chief Executive Officer, Clinton Foundation

Sergio Tobón

Director of Territorial Development, Fundación Proantioquia

Mauricio Toro

Congress

Carlos Holmes Trujillo

Former Ambassador of Colombia to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Grand-Duchy of Luxe...

Sonia Uribe

Deputy Director of Foreign Trade, DIAN

H.E. Álvaro Uribe Vélez

Former President, the Republic of Colombia

Juliana Uribe Villegas

Founder, Movilizatorio

Carolina Urrutia Vásquez

Director for Incidence, Transforma

Laura Valdivieso Jiménez

Vice Minister of Commerce, Republic of Colombia

Amb. Carlos Vecchio

Ambassador to the United States, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Samantha Vinograd

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Global Opportunity Advisors

Eduardo Visbal Rey

Vice President of Foreign Trade, Fenalco

Nataliya Volodymyrivna Katser-Buchkovska

Member of Parliament, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Congresswoman & Chair, Democratic National Committee

Jacob William

President and Group CEO, Flatworld Solutions

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