Maria Paula Carvajal is a managing director at Citigroup and head of Latin America for Sovereign Credit Management within In-Business Country Risk Management. She previously led the Sovereign and Economic Risk Group for Latin America at Goldman Sachs and was a sovereign risk associate at Moody’s Investors Service. An economist with nearly 20 years of experience in emerging markets and sovereign risk, she has a strong track record of anticipating crises, assessing policy impacts, and developing tools to mitigate risks and uncover opportunities.

Ana Paola Barbosa serves as director of public policy for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Mexico, a position she has held since November 2022. In this role, she leads AWS’s engagement with Mexican government officials, regulators, and policymakers on cloud computing, artificial intelligence policy, and digital transformation initiatives.

José Medina Mora is President of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE) (2026–2027). He is the founder and Chairman of the Board of CompuSoluciones, an information technology company with operations in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and the United States. He previously served as Vice President of the CCE. He was also National President of the Confederation of Mexican Employers (COPARMEX) from 2021 to 2024. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana.

Jorge Arce became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HSBC Mexico in February 2020 and has been Chair of the Board of Directors since January 2022. He previously worked in Banco Santander México where he was Deputy General Director of Global Banking and Markets and before that he was the CEO of Deutsche Bank México. He has a BA in Finance and Economics from Pace University in New York.

Javier Treviño Cantú es Vicepresidente Senior de Asuntos Corporativos de Walmart de México y Centroamérica, donde lidera los programas de comunicación corporativa, la estrategia ASG (ambiental, social y de gobernanza) y sustentabilidad, así como el relacionamiento de la compañía con autoridades, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y otras instituciones vinculadas al desarrollo de la empresa en la región.

Sofía Pérez Gasque Muslera es Directora General de la Asociación Mexicana de la Industria de Tecnologías de Información (AMITI), donde lidera la agenda del sector tecnológico en México con foco en inteligencia artificial, ciberseguridad, nearshoring y desarrollo del talento con perspectiva de género. Es estratega en desarrollo económico, género y tecnología, con más de 20 años de experiencia movilizando capital, políticas públicas y talento para cerrar brechas en América Latina.

Olga Patiño es Vicepresidente Regional del Sector Público en Salesforce México, donde lidera estrategias de transformación digital enfocadas en la adopción de tecnologías como nube, datos e inteligencia artificial en instituciones gubernamentales. Cuenta con una trayectoria de más de dos décadas en el sector tecnológico, con experiencia en ventas estratégicas, desarrollo de negocio y liderazgo comercial en empresas globales.

Alejandra León, is an associate director of research and analysis at S&P Global Energy, specializes in the Latin American oil and gas upstream market and in refined products analysis.

Ada Ferrer is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. From 1995 to 2024, she taught at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of Cuba: An American History, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history, and a finalist for the Cundill History Prize.