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Members

The Dialogue's most important asset is its membership of 100 outstanding public and private leaders from the United States, Canada, and 22 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean--including political, business, academic, media, and other non-governmental leaders. Twelve Dialogue members served as presidents of their countries, nearly twenty have served at the cabinet level, and seventeen have held seats in congress. Twenty per cent are in the business or finance sectors. Seven members are associated with the media and nine with universities. Dialogue members are an intellectually and politically diverse group, which includes Republicans and Democrats from the United States, and views from across the political spectrum in Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Members are united by their commitment to democratic principles, social equity, regional economic cooperation, and free and vigorous discussion.


Inter-American Dialogue Board of Directors

Members from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada

Members from the United States 

 Sol M. Linowitz Forum


Argentina
José Octavio Bordón
José María Dagnino Pastore
On Leave:
Beatríz Nofal

Barbados

Billie Miller

Bolivia
L. Enrique García
George Gray Molina
Carlos D. Mesa
Jorge Quiroga
Emeritus:
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada

Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Luiz Fernando Furlan
Marcos Jank
Jacqueline Pitanguy
João Sayad
Roberto Teixeira da Costa
On Leave:
Henrique Campos Meirelles

Canada
Joe Clark
Barbara J. McDougall
Sylvia Ostry
Pierre Pettigrew

Chile
Andrés Allamand
Michelle Bachelet
Sergio Bitar
Alejandro Foxley
Ricardo Lagos

Colombia
Sergio Fajardo
Antonio Navarro Wolff
Rafael Pardo
Marta Lucía Ramírez
On Leave:
Fernando Cepeda Ulloa
Noemí Sanín
Juan Manuel Santos

Costa Rica
Epsy Campbell
Sonia Picado
On Leave:
Oscar Arias

Dominican Republic
Elena Viyella de Paliza
On Leave:
Leonel Fernández

Ecuador
Roberto Baquerizo
Yolanda Kakabadse
Emeritus:
Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea

El Salvador
Roberto H. Murray Meza
Joaquin Villalobos

Guatemala
Nineth Montenegro
Eduardo Stein

Haiti
Carl Braun

Jamaica
Oliver F. Clarke

Mexico
Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
Eugenio Clariond Reyes-Retana
José Angel Gurría
Nora Lustig
Beatriz Paredes
Andrés Rozental
Jesús Silva-Herzog
Ernesto Zedillo

Nicaragua
Ernesto Fernández-Holmann
Emeritus:
    Violeta Chamorro

Panama
Martín Torrijos
Emeritus:
Nicolás Ardito-Barletta

Peru
Lourdes Flores Nano
Diego García-Sayán
Jorge Montoya
Mario Vargas Llosa
On Leave:
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Trinidad and Tobago
Edwin Carrington

Uruguay
Enrique Iglesias
Emeritus:
Julio María Sanguinetti

Venezuela
Jonathan Coles
Moisés Naím
Teodoro Petkoff




MEMBERS FROM THE UNITED STATES

Cresencio Arcos
Washington, DC

Bernard Aronson
Washington, DC

Michael D. Barnes
Washington, DC

Alan Batkin
New York, NY

Peter D. Bell
Atlanta, GA

Xavier Becerra
Washington, DC

Joyce Chang
New York, NY

Lee Cullum
Dallas, TX

Drew S. Days III
New Haven, CT

David de Ferranti
Washington, DC

Karen DeYoung
Washington, DC

Jorge I. Domínguez
Cambridge, MA

Maria Echaveste
Washington, DC

Maurice A. Ferré
Miami, FL

Albert Fishlow
New York, NY

William Friend
Washington, DC

Francis Fukuyama
Washington, DC

Bob Graham
Miami Lakes, FL

Richard Haass
New York, NY

Lee Hamilton
Nashville, IN

Carla A. Hills
Washington, DC

Donna J. Hrinak
Purchase, NY

William Hybl
Colorado Springs, CO

Alberto Ibarguen
Miami, FL

Jim Kolbe
Tucson, AZ

Abraham F. Lowenthal
Los Angeles, CA

Mónica Lozano
Los Angeles, CA

Thomas J. Mackell, Jr.
New York, NY

Theodore McCarrick
Washington, DC

John McCarter
Ocatie, SC

Thomas F. McLarty III
Little Rock, AK

Peter McPherson
East Lansing, MI

Doris Meissner
Washington, DC

John R. Petty
Washington, DC

John Porter
Washington, DC

William Reilly
San Francisco, CA

Bill Richardson
Santa Fe, NM

Anthony Romero
New York, NY

Brent Scowcroft
Washington, DC

Timothy R. Scully
Notre Dame, IN

Donna Shalala
Miami, FL

Paula Stern
Washington, DC

Viron Peter Vaky
Potomac, MD

Jerry Weller
Washington, DC

Emeritus Member:
Jimmy Carter
Atlanta, GA

On Leave:
Stanley Fischer
Richard W. Fisher
Robert Zoellick