Earl Anthony Wayne is a Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at American University’s School of International Service and Advisory Board Co-Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute.   

Ambassador Wayne served as a US diplomat from 1975 to 2015, including as the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs (EB), achieving the rank of Career Ambassador.

Juan Manuel Matheu has been the corporate general manager of Banco Falabella since June 2018. He has a degree in administration from the Universidad Católica Argentina and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He began his career at McKinsey & Co where he served financial institutions across Latin America. He joined Banco Falabella Chile in 2010 as channel manager, and three years later he assumed the general management of that business, to later assume the leadership of the business in the region.

Dino Besomi worked at McKinsey in Latin America, Europe, and North America where he focused on technology-enabled transformations. Over more than 30 transformation projects, he has worked on digital and financial innovation in the UK, Germany, France, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and other Latin American countries. At Mambu, he focuses on advising the main financial innovators in the region with a focus on product strategy and technology-enabled roadmaps, which enable agility to implement financial innovation.

Julie Mulkerin Ortiz is the General Manager, Decarbonization Strategy at Chevron and is based in the Bay Area in California. She leads cross-functional teams in setting external and internal incentives for driving a lower carbon future, like GHG targets including net zero aspirations, carbon footprinting and accounting and other strategic initiatives. She has been the lead author on four TCFD-aligned Climate Resilience Reports and in developing enterprise climate policy positions.

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.

Shohei Tada has over 20 years of experience in the field of providing official development assistance of the Japanese Government for developing countries. 

He is currently Deputy Director General of Latin America and the Caribbean , Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA),  and is responsible for planning, identifying, approving and administrating all types of JICA’s assistance facility such as sovereign and non-sovereign finance, technical cooperation, grant, training courses, etc. for 23 developing countries in the region. 

Shohei Tada has over 20 years of experience in the field of providing official development assistance of the Japanese Government for developing countries. He is currently deputy director general of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Department of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), responsible for planning, identifying, approving and administrating all types of JICA’s assistance facility, such as sovereign and non-sovereign finance, technical cooperation, grant, training courses, etc. for 23 developing countries in the region.

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.

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.