Inter-American Dialogue | Board of Directors

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ABOUT THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Policy and program direction of the Inter-American Dialogue resides with the Board of Directors, which also provides financial and administrative oversight. Board members have prime responsibility for defining the substantive agenda of issues that the Dialogue addresses, selecting candidates for Dialogue membership, and shaping our institutional development strategies. On occasion, Board members decide to engage an important or urgent policy issue and make public their recommendations for action.

Directors are also members of the Inter-American Dialogue and participate in our work to build productive ties among Western Hemisphere nations. Our Board is drawn largely from Latin American and Caribbean nations as well as the United States and Canada. The group incorporates a diversity of political and professional perspectives, but all share a commitment to democratic rule, social equity, and economic cooperation in the Americas.

Michelle Bachelet, Chile Co-Chair Undersecretary General, UN Women Former President of Chile	Carla Hills, United States Co-Chair CEO, Hills and Company Former US Trade Representative
Enrique Iglesias, Uruguay Vice Chair Secretary General, Iberoamerican General Secretariat	Thomas McLarty, United States Vice Chair President and CEO, McLarty Associates Former White House Chief of Staff
Alicia Bárcena, Mexico Executive Secretary, UN Economic Comission for Latin America and the Carribean Former UN Undersecretary General for Management	Peter McPherson, United States President, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges President Emeritus, Michigan State University Former Administrator, USAID
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazil Former President of Brazil	Billie Miller, Barbados Former Foreign Afffairs, Health, Education, and International Buisness Minister of Barbados
David de Ferranti, United States CEO, Results for Development Institute Former Vice President for Latin America and the Carribean, World Bank	Antonio Navarro Wolff, Colombia Governor of the Narino Department of Colombia Former Health Minister of Colombia
Alejandro Foxley, Chile Former Foreign and Finance Minister of Chile	Brian O'Neill, United States Vice-Chair, Lazard International Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Treasury
Francis Fukuyama, United States Professor, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies	Pierre Pettigrew, Canada Executive Advisor, Deloitte and Touche Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Canada
L. Enrique Garcia, Bolivia President and CEO, Andean Development Corporation Former Planning and Coordination Minister of Bolivia	Jorge Quiroga, Bolivia President, FUNDEMOS Former President of Bolivia
Donna J. Hrinak, United States President, Boeing Brazil Former US Ambassador to Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic	Marta Lucía Ramírez, Colombia Former Defense and Foreign Affairs Minister of Colombia
Marcos Jank, Brazil President and CEO, Brazil Sugar Cane Industry Association Associate Professor, University of Sao Paulo	Eduardo Stein, Guatemala Coordinator, Honduran Truth Commission Former Vice President of Guatemala
Jim Kolbe, United States Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund Former US Representative (R-AR)	Martín Torrijos, Panama Former President of Panama
Ricardo Lagos, Chile President, Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo Former President of Chile	Elena Viyella de Paliza, Dominican Republic President, Inter Química
Thomas J. Mackell Jr., United States Chairman, United Benefits and Pension Services President, Association of Benefit Administrators Former Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond	Ernesto Zedillo, Mexico Director, Yale University Center for the Study of Globalization Former President of Mexico
Peter D. Bell, United States Chair Emeritus President Emeritus, CARE USA Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Unversity	Michael Shifter President, Inter-American Dialogue