Ricardo Quiñónez Lemus has served as the Mayor of Guatemala City since 2018. He was previously the First Councilor, a post he occupied from 2008 to 2018. He was also elected to be the First Syndic of the Municipality of Guatemala in 2003. Quiñónez is the founder of the Unionist Party, which he remains a leader of. 

Jonathan Menkos currently serves as Guatemala’s Minister of Public Finance. Prior to his current role, Minister Menkos served a member of the Guatemalan Senate. He was also the Vice-Presidential candidate for Thelma Aldana in 2019. 

Gabriela García-Quinn has served as Guatemala’s Minister of Economy since January 15, 2024. Prior to her current role, she has held various roles at non-governmental organizations. 

Jazmin de la Vega serves as Guatemala’s Minister of Communications, Infrastructure, and Housing. Minister de la Vega has had a long career as a government official. She was first elected as a Deputy to the Guatemalan senate in 1996, where she served on behalf of the Partido de Avanzada Nacional. She left her post in the Senate in 1998 to become the Housing Coordinator at the Ministry of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing. 

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.