Bernardo Arévalo has served as the fifty-second President of Guatemala since January 15, 2024. First surfacing on the political scene in 2020, he served as a Deputy in the Guatemalan Congress from 2020 until this year. Before running for public office, President Arévalo worked as the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Carpio from 1994 to 1995 and as the Guatemalan Ambassador to Spain from 1995 to 1996. 

As president for Microsoft Latin America, Alberto “Tito” Arciniega focuses on supporting and accelerating the digital journey of countries, communities, and markets in the region through technologies such as artificial intelligence and cloud services, enabling Microsoft customers and ecosystem in the region to achieve more, seize opportunities, and continue growing through innovative and secure solutions. 

Idil Yasa was appointed to JTI’s Executive Committee as Regional President, Americas, in September 2021. She is responsible for the region’s performance, development and growth. 

Idil brings a wealth of commercial experience with more than 20 years at JTI, across a wide range of business disciplines. She holds Turkish and Swiss nationalities. 

Prior to taking up her current role, she held the General Manager position for the CzHuSk (Czech, Hungary, Slovakia) markets cluster. 

Carlos Motta’s (b. 1978, Colombia) multi-disciplinary art practice documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities in order to challenge normative discourses through acts of self-representation. As a historian of untold narratives, Motta is committed to in-depth research on the struggles of post-colonial subjects and societies. His work manifests in a variety of mediums including video, installation, sculpture, drawing, web-based projects, performance, and symposia. 

Esperanza Mayobre is a Brooklyn-based Venezuelan artist whose work often conceptualizes the political and economic events that have led her home country of Venezuela into economic and moral ruin. 

Ignacio Yarur Arrasate is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MBA from the IESE Business School in Barcelona. He joined Bci in 2004, and since then he has worked in all the Bank's businesses, after having spent 19 years in the Management Team, developing and directing key units of the financial business, such as Retail Banking, Wholesale Banking, Private Banking, MACH digital account, Data & Analytics, including his time at City National Bank of Florida.

Elizabeth Gonzalez is responsible for the research and content development of sponsored programming for the commercial partners of Bloomberg Live Experience's international forums. Under the Bloomberg New Economy platform, she managed four working groups of private and public sector leaders and experts, including the Cities, Climate, Health, and Trade Councils.

Maria Paula Perdomo represents Chile’s foreign policy priorities at the United Nations on the issues of social development, human rights and gender. She has actively engaged in multilateral action and worked with the private sector, and along civil society to strengthen multi sectoral partnerships. She is also a graduate student at Columbia University, where she is completing a Masters in Public Administration. 

Diogo Ide is a senior program manager in Microsoft’s UN and International Organizations office. He manages Microsoft’s engagement with the UN on early warnings, digital transformation, and environmental sustainability. He is also an active member of the Microsoft LGBTQ+ ERG group. Previously, Diogo was a director of public policy programs at the Americas Society & Council of the Americas, where he was responsible for tracking policy developments and managing relationships with C-suite executives and senior government officials.