Francisco Meré
Francisco Meré is founder and chief executive officer of Blooms, where he leads the company’s work on cross-border trade solutions for Latin American exporters.
Ana Kourchenko
April 17, 2026
Francisco Meré is founder and chief executive officer of Blooms, where he leads the company’s work on cross-border trade solutions for Latin American exporters.
John Beckham is managing director of the North American Development Bank, where he leads the institution’s work to support infrastructure and sustainable development in the U.S.-Mexico border region.
Noe Garcia is managing partner at Forward Global, where he leads the firm’s government relations practice.
Join the Brazil Program at the Inter-American Dialogue and Alandar for a webinar on April 29, at 10:00 AM ET, bringing together policymakers, experts, and private sector representatives to discuss the evolving digital governance landscape and its implications for Brazil and beyond.
Sampaio is a seasoned corporate affairs and public policy professional with experience in public policy development, sustainability, multi stakeholder alliances, issues management, and public-private partnerships across several business segments and multilateral organizations.
Veronica Deviá is a journalist from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and a social scientist from the University of São Paulo (USP), with a master’s degree in international relations from USP and a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Mason fellow and a scholarship recipient of the Claudio Haddad Family Fund Foundation.
Durante los últimos años, una parte relevante del debate energético global estuvo dominada por la transición, la electrificación, la expansión de las renovables, la caída relativa de la intensidad energética en algunas economías, y la idea de que el sistema internacional había desarrollado mayores capacidades de absorción frente a episodios geopolíticos.
Sean Randolph is senior director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership of business, labor, government and higher education that works to foster a competitive economy in California and the San Francisco Bay Area, including San Francisco, Oakland and Silicon Valley.
Join the Inter-American Dialogue’s Brazil Program for a discussion on policymaking in Brazil, featuring Brazilian Congresswoman Tabata Amaral and moderated by Bruna Santos, Director of the Brazil Program.
This Q&A is part of the Brazil Program’s ongoing efforts to examine the evolving digital policy landscape in Brazil, particularly in the context of the 2026 electoral cycle and broader debates on artificial intelligence, platform governance, and digital infrastructure.
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