Alexandre Staufacar Correia is the current senior director of operation for Latin America at Equinix. Prior to this role, he held the finance director for LatAm position at the same company. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in business, with a specialization in finance and accounting, and an MBA. Alexandre has over 30 years of experience across finance, operations, value chain & logistics, process control, project management, and transformation, in leading global companies such as Nestlé, Ford Motor Company, Itaú-Unibanco, Vinci Energies, and Equinix.

Vanessa Molina is a dynamic supply chain leader, human centric design practitioner and strategic program manager. Inspired by technology, sustainability and innovation, Vanessa’s passion is driving business growth and the adoption of emerging technologies. As a Global Program Director for Sustainability at SAP, she oversees strategic planning and go-to-market programs. She has two decades of supply chain experience leading global programs, market strategies and strategic alliances for large multinationals such as SAP and Fujitsu.

Maria Lourdes Teran is vice president of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and head of the AS/COA Miami office. With over 25 years of experience working with Latin America, she leads business-relevant public policy programs in Miami engaging public- and private-sector leaders, NGOs, foundations, and academics on a range of business and policy issues as well as C-level leadership forums for CEOs and CFOs of major multilatinas and multinational companies across the Western Hemisphere.

Indiana Trejos holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and economics from Tufts University and a master’s degree in political economy from the University of Essex, where she received a scholarship from the UK government. Prior to becoming deputy minister of foreign trade, Trejos developed an extensive career in public service. At the Ministry of Foreign Trade, she served as coordinator for North America and inclusive trade, coordinator for world trade organization affairs, advisor on trade facilitation, and negotiator for market access and textiles.

Peter J. Johnson served as a political, economic, and philanthropic advisor to brothers John D. Rockefeller III, Laurance Rockefeller, and Americas Society/Council of the Americas founder David Rockefeller for over four decades. Johnson is a co-author of The Rockefeller Century (Scribner, 1988) and The Rockefeller Conscience (Scribner, 1991), among other works.

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Sylvia Palacios Whitman (b. Osorno, Chile, 1941) is a visual and performance artist who has been experimenting with movement and contemporary dance since moving to New York in the early 1960s. She became an integral figure of the experimental downtown arts scene in 1970s New York, having collaborated with many U.S. and international artists.

La Banda Chuska merges the sounds of retro Peruvian cumbia and psychedelic chicha with 1960s Latin American and Middle Eastern surf rock. Born from the experimentalism and chaos of New York City, La Banda Chuska amplifies their diverse cultural backgrounds of Peru, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and various corners of the United States.