Erick D. Langer is professor of history at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He teaches courses on Latin American History. He is the author, co-author, and editor of eight books and author or co-author of more than 50 articles in journals and book chapters. Dr. Langer is the U.S. History Representative of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History.
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Dr. Fernando Santos Alvite is an Ecuadorian lawyer who was appointed Minister of Energy and Mining on October 31, 2022. He previously served in the same capacity in 1987.
He was the head of the OPEC Legal Affairs Unit and was based in Vienna, Austria. for a number of years. Dr. Santos has a deep knowledge of the energy sector in Ecuador and is committed to promoting the sustainable development of communities affected by the energy industry.
He holds a PhD in Jurisprudence.
Dr. Gabriela Prada is a physician with more than 20 years of experience in policy analysis and management consulting in health care. She is a global expert on value-based health systems and value-based medical technology acquisitions, and has led the dialogue on these issues with public managers and health care providers in Canada, Europe, Latin America and Australia. She was appointed by the Ontario government to an expert panel that provided recommendations on how to improve the medical technology supply chain in Canada's largest province.
Claudia Brabata is the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for Medtronic Latin America, and has a career spanning more than 25 years in the health industry, performing various roles in reimbursement, market access, government policy, advocacy, marketing, business development and finance with local, regional and global responsibilities.
She is the current president of the “AdvaMed – Latin America Access Working Group” and former president of the “Latin America – Industry Committee at the International Society of Pharmaco-Economics and Outcomes Research – ISPOR”.
Dr. Diego Guarin has contributed to the development of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research in Latin America serving as chair of two ISPOR Latin American Consortium Committees (2010-12/2014-16) and being appointed as the first representative of Latin America at the ISPOR Health Science Policy Council (2017-2019). He is also member of HTAi interest group on Developing Countries since 2009.
PhD in economics with experience in research, consultancy, policy making, health, education, journalism. Has been vice minister of Social Protection in Colombia, researcher at Harvard and at Fedesarrollo, editor of business and economics at Semana magazine and founding director of PROESA (think tank in health economics and policy). Has served as board member of organizations in the financial, social and technology sectors, and Dean of the School of Economics and Finance at Universidad Icesi in Colombia.
MSc in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Executive Master in Public Administration. He holds a Diploma of Advances Studies in innovation and research management. Ramon has more than ten years of experience in hospital and medical innovation and more than twenty years of experience in internationally funded research projects, mainly EU projects.
César Landa Arroyo has been Peru's foreign minister since February 1, 2022. He was a senior professor of constitutional law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. He has been a national and international constitutional consultant and arbitrator for public and private institutions. He is the former president and magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Peru (2004–2010), ad-hoc judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2003–2014) and vice minister of state in the Office of Justice (2004).
Santiago Rojas Arroyo is the north regional manager of the CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and the institution's representative in Peru. He held different positions such as minister of commerce, industry and tourism of Colombia; president of the Foreign Trade Bank – BANCOLDEX; general director of taxes and customs; adviser to the Colombian Mission to the WTO; director of the Colombian Institute of Foreign Trade; CAN legal consultant, among others.