Andre Van Hoeck is a principal investment officer and the global port and maritime sector lead at the World Bank Group, where he has worked on port projects involving the private sector in Latin-America, Africa, Europe, Middle-East and Asia.

Antonio Corrochano has been an Ag & Trading LATAM managing director since 2016 and is a member of the LATAM leadership team. He oversees Demand Markets, leading market access strategies for Ag & Trading products across Latin America. He also leads the Commercial Excellence LATAM team, focused on process redesign, data management, and technology integration to strengthen customer engagement and commercial capabilities across the region.

José Gregorio Baquero is global CEO of the Food Business Group at CMI (Corporación Multi Inversiones). He has worked with CMI since 2009 first as a consultant, senior advisor, and non-executive member of the Board of Directors. In 2018, he was appointed CEO of CMI Foods and in 2024 he was appointed CEO of CMI Global Foods. He is responsible o leading the growth of CMI Foods in the United States and holds the overall responsibility for the food businesses in all geographies where we operate.

Laura Alfaro Maykall is the chief economist and economic counselor of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). She started in this role on June 1, 2025, after taking a leave from Harvard Business School, where she is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration.

Silvio Cascione is the head of Eurasia Group in Brazil and has more than fifteen years' experience in analysis and reporting on political and economic issues. Before joining Eurasia Group in 2017, he was a senior correspondent for Reuters News in Brasília. He writes weekly for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo as a columnist.

Susana Cordeiro Guerra is the vice president for the Latin America and the Caribbean region at World Bank.

In this role, she manages the Bank’s engagement with 31 countries across the region and oversees a portfolio of US$41.5 billion in ongoing operations. Under her leadership, the World Bank partners with governments and stakeholders to advance strategic priorities to deliver measurable results, jobs-driven development and stronger public–private collaboration across the region.

Canada’s leading expert on trade and tariffs, Steve Verheul is the preeminent advisor to government leaders and the nation’s largest, most powerful corporations and industry groups. As Canada’s chief trade negotiator, Steve was responsible for negotiating CUSMA/USMCA and the Canada-European Union trade agreement. Hailed by media and pundits as the “most important Canadian you’ve probably never heard of,” Steve’s network, expertise and relationships in domestic and international markets is unparalleled and his support for clients is game-changing.