Nymia Almeida is a senior vice president at Moody’s Corporate Finance Group in Mexico City, leading the credit analysis and rating process for debt issuers in the oil and gas industry in Latin America. Prior to this position, she had similar responsibilities for the Latam media and telecom and the metals and mining sectors. Almeida joined Moody’s in 2005.
Jaime Caballero is the chief financial officer of Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC), the largest company in Colombia and one of the leading integrated energy and infrastructure conglomerates in Latin America. Caballero’s academic background includes a law degree from the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), an MBA in energy business from the Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), and executive studies in advanced financial management at Duke University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. His trajectory covers more than 20 years in the global energy sector.
Luis Fernando Mejía is the executive director of Fedesarrollo, the Colombian think tank. He was the deputy minister and minister of planning of Colombia from 2014 to 2018. During his tenure, the Ministry of Planning led the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, designed and published long-term policies on green growth and air quality in cities, and provided technical support and coordination for the government during Colombia’s successful accession process to the OECD.
Ambassador Martha Bárcena Coqui is the former Mexican ambassador to the United States, a position she held from December 2018 to February 2021.
Fernando Ruiz Gómez is a doctor with a master's degree in Economics from the Javeriana University. He also has a master's degree in Public Health / Occupational Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, and a doctor in Public Health, from the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico. In his professional career, the position he held as Vice Minister of Public Health during the period 2013-2016 stands out.
Javier Guzman is the Director of Global Health Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development.
As Director for the Americas at Sustainalytics, Tom leads the team focused on sustainable financing, ESG Ratings, performance benchmarking, and impact reporting. Tom has held senior roles on the buy and sell side of capital markets including investment banking, and asset management.
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Prior to being elected with 86 percent support from Miami residents, Mayor Francis X. Suarez served as Miami Commissioner for District 4 during eight years.
Ambassador Lisa Kenna is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister Counselor. She served most recently as the Executive Secretary of the Department of State. Prior to that, Ambassador Kenna held positions as the Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State, a Political Adviser in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Director for Iraq at the National Security Council. She also served as chief of the Political Section at the U.S.