From Risk to Success: Lessons from Leaders and Innovators

H.E. Michelle Bachelet is the United Nations high commissioner for Human Rights. Bachelet, the first female president of Chile, served for two terms, between 2006 and 2010, as well as from 2014 to 2018. During her presidential tenures, she achieved education and tax reforms and...

Marisol Alarcón is partner and Chile executive director of Laboratoria. She is always working for others to have the opportunities she has had, hoping that someday it will not matter where you are born to succeed in life. Doing so, she has experienced extreme realities from the...

Scarlett Alvarez is vice president and chief stakeholder and sustainability officer for AES. She joined AES in 2002 and has served in diverse roles at the local, regional, and corporate levels in the areas of stakeholder management, external and investor relations, corporate...

Karen Bruck is Mercadolibre’s regional sales corp director. Before this role, she led Mercadolibre’s team in Uruguay as country manager for more than 3 years. Bruck lived in the United States for 10 years where she graduated from MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, MA...

Monica Contreras has been the president of PepsiCo Foods for the Andean Region since 2013. The first woman to reach a leadership position in sales in Latin America, her professional career at PepsiCo started in 2000 in the areas of marketing, sales, and trade marketing; she was...

Adolfo Corujo is partner and chief talent and innovation officer at LLORENTE & CUENCA. Previously at LLORENTE & CUENCA, he was managing director of the Spain and Portugal offices and led the digital area of the company. Corujo is an expert in reputation management on the Internet...

Violeta Domínguez is head of inclusion and gender equality at CAF - Development Bank of Latin America. Prior to this position, she worked as a consultant on gender projects for different organizations and was the director of the Spanish International Cooperation Agency in Angola...

Mónica Duwe is the CEO of HSBC Bank Chile with more than 25 years of experience in financing and investment banking. She has worked in Luxemburg, Germany, New York, and Chile. Duwe has held positions at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as director responsible for Commodities...

Susan Greenwell is senior vice president and head of international government relations at MetLife, a global provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management. In her role, she serves as an advisor to the company’s global business leaders and supports...

Carmen Roman Arancibia, a lawyer from the Universidad Gabriela Mistral of Chile, has more than 18 years of experience in the retail area.  She started her career in “Fontaine and Co.” law firm and since 1999 has worked in a Chilean supermarkets chain, owned by the Dutch...

Carol Z. Perez, a career member of the Foreign Service, class of minister-counselor, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate July 14, 2016 as U.S. ambassador to Chile. She served as principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Human Resources at the Department of State, from...

Consuelo Saavedra is a senior correspondent and presenter at Televisión Nacional de Chile and Radio Duna. She has hosted TV newscasts, political shows, and investigative reporting programs for more than 20 years. Among many recognitions, Saavedra was named Chile’s best TV...

Susan Segal was elected president and CEO of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas in August 2003 after working in the private sector with Latin America and other emerging markets for over 30 years. A passionate supporter of Latin America, she joined the organizations...