Kristin M. Kane serves as the principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Global Public Affairs. She is a career Senior Foreign Service officer with the rank of Minister Counselor. Ms. Kane most recently served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, at Embassy Lisbon from 2019-2022. Her earlier foreign service tours include policy and public affairs work at Embassies Brasilia, Paris, Dakar (covering also Bissau), Maputo, Lisbon, and Consulate Lagos. In Washington, DC, Ms.

Oscar Montezuma is founder and CEO at Niubox, a leading consulting legal and regulatory firm specialized in the technology industry with operations in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Montezuma received his law degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and a master's degree (LLM) from The George Washington University. Montezuma has extensive experience in the telecommunications, media and information technology industry in the public and private sector.

Natalia María Iregui Ortigoza is the director of public policy for North and South Latin America, including Central America and the Caribbean, for Amazon Web Services (AWS). In her role, she focuses on building relationships with government officials, representing AWS in industry associations, and advocating for regulations that allow business development.

Stacy-Marie Ishmael is the Managing Editor for Crypto at Bloomberg. She's based in New York with a global team charged with covering every element of this 24/7 asset class. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she was the editorial director at The Texas Tribune in Austin.

Albina Ruiz Ríos is Peru's minister of the environment. She has valuable experience in the sector, having served in 2019 as deputy minister of Environmental Management of the Ministry of the Environment. She has been an international consultant in local development projects, with emphasis on comprehensive solid waste management with a focus on sustainability and inclusion, rational use of water and environmental planning and management. Her professional work has been recognized nationally and internationally.

Ana Dolores Román Aguinaga has been with Pfizer since 1995, following the merger with Parke Davis. Since February 2020, she has held the position of Country Manager of Pfizer for Colombia and Venezuela, after leading Pfizer's General Management for Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. 

She is an executive with extensive commercial experience in marketing and sales in the pharmaceutical sector in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia, with the ability to develop new organizational models oriented to excellence results and productivity improvement.