Perspectives on Remittance Flows in 2025

Members

The Inter-American Dialogue’s membership is composed of over 100 esteemed public and private leaders from the United States, Canada, and 21 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Among them, 18 have served as presidents of their countries, over three dozen have served at the cabinet level, and 17 have held seats in national legislatures. Dialogue members enrich our debate on the region’s most pressing issues, lend credibility to our policy outputs, and ensure diverse perspectives across the ideological spectrum.

Sebastián Acha

Dialogue Member Sebastián Acha is the executive director of PRO Desarrollo Paraguay, a former representative...

Andrés Allamand

Dialogue Member Andrés Allamand is a Chilean senator and former defense minister....

Tabata Amaral

Dialogue Member Tabata Amaral is a federal deputy for the Democratic Labor Party (PDT) representing...

Nicolás Ardito-Barletta

Dialogue Member Nicolás Ardito-Barletta served as president of Panama from 1984 to 1985....

Marisol Argueta

Dialogue Member Marisol Argueta is the head of Latin America and member of the Executive...

Bernard Aronson

Dialogue Member Bernard Aronson is a founder and managing partner of ACON Investments....

Michelle Bachelet

Dialogue Member Michelle Bachelet is the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the former...

Alicia Bárcena

Alicia Bárcena is currently the Mexican Ambassador in Chile and was previously the executive secretary...

Xavier Becerra

Dialogue Member Xavier Becerra was the attorney general of California. Prior to becoming attorney general,...

Sergio Bitar

Sergio Bitar is a member and non-resident senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue....

Catalina Botero

Catalina Botero Marino is a lawyer, director of the UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression...

Ángel Cabrera

Dialogue Member Ángel Cabrera is president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. From 2012 until...

Epsy Campbell Barr

Epsy Campbell Barr was vice president of Costa Rica and previously the foreign minister and...

Lázaro Cárdenas Batel

Dialogue Member Lázaro Cárdenas Batel is a Mexican politician, serving as a chief adviser to...

Edwin Carrington

Dialogue Member Edwin Carrington served as secretary general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) from 1992...

Julieta Castellanos

Dialogue Member Julieta Castellanos is a Honduran sociologist and activist. She served as rector of...

Julián Castro

Dialogue Member Julián Castro is a politician who served as the Secretary of Housing and...

Fernando Cepeda

Dialogue Member Fernando Cepeda is a Colombian political scientist, professor, and diplomat....

Oscar Chacon

Dialogue Member Oscar Chacon is the co-founder and executive director of Alianza Americas, an umbrella...

Violeta Chamorro

Violeta Chamorro is a newspaper publisher and politician who served as president of Nicaragua from...

Joyce Chang

Dialogue Member Joyce Chang is Chair of Global Research at J.P. Morgan....

Laura Chinchilla

Dialogue Member Laura Chinchilla was president of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014....

Eugenio Clariond Reyes-Retana

Dialogue Member Eugenio Clariond Reyes-Retana is the chairman of Grupo Cuprum, S.A. de C.V., a...

Joe Clark

Dialogue Member Charles Joseph (Joe) Clark was the 16th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from...

Arturo Condo

Roberto Teixeira da Costa

Dialogue Member Roberto Teixeira da Costa is a Brazilian businessman, economist, and scholar, presently serving...

Mariana Costa

Dialogue Member Mariana Costa is the co-founder and CEO at Laboratoria, a social enterprise that...

Lee Cullum

Dialogue Member Lee Cullum is a prominent television, radio, and print journalist. She currently hosts...

José María Dagnino Pastore

José María Dagnino Pastore is an Argentine economist and former Minister of Economy and Labor...

Denise Damiani

Dialogue Member Denise Damiani, a global technology executive, is founder and CEO of Denise Damiani...

Monica de Bolle

Monica de Bolle is the director of the Latin American Studies Program at Johns Hopkins'...

David de Ferranti

Dialogue Member David de Ferranti is co-founder, senior adviser, and chair of Results for Development....

Isabel de Saint Malo

Dialogue Member Isabel de De Saint Malo is the former vice president and minister of...

Karen DeYoung

Dialogue Member Karen DeYoung is the associate editor and senior national security correspondent for The...

Gary Doer

Dialogue Member Gary Doer was the 23rd Canadian Ambassador to the United States and former...

Sylvia Escovar

Dialogue Member Sylvia Escovar is the president of Organización Terpel. She has also served as...

Sergio Fajardo

Dialogue Member Sergio Fajardo is the former governor of Antioquia and the former mayor of...

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Dialogue member Vanda Felbab-Brown is a senior fellow in the Center for Security, Strategy, and...

Leonel Fernández

Dialogue Member Leonel Fernández was president of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and...

Christiana Figueres

Dialogue Member Christiana Figueres Figueres is currently the vice-chair of the Global Covenant of Mayors...

Lourdes Flores Nano

Dialogue Member Lourdes Flores Nano is a Peruvian politician and lawyer, formerly the head of...

Julio Frenk

Julio José Frenk Mora is a Mexican physician and academic currently serving as the seventh...

Francis Fukuyama

Dialogue Member Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini senior fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli...

Luiz Fernando Furlan

Dialogue Member Liuz Fernando Furlan is a former Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade...

Eric Garcetti

Eric Garcetti, the second-term mayor of Los Angeles, California, is the youngest person and second...

Enrique García

Dialogue Member Enrique García is the Former Executive President of CAF - Development Bank of...

Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Dialogue member Lulu Garcia-Navarro is the host of Weekend Edition Sunday and one of the...

Diego García-Sayán

Diego García-Sayán is the UN Special Rapporteur on Independence of Judges and Lawyers. He previously...

Helene Gayle

Dialogue Member Helene D. Gayle is president and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust....

Carolina Goic

Dialogue Member Carolina Goic is a Chilean senator, a former president of the Christian Democratic...

Claudio X. González Guajardo

Dialogue Member Claudio X. González Guajardo is the president of Mexico vs Corruption, a non-profit...

Ellen Gracie Northfleet

Dialogue Member Ellen Gracie Northfleet is the former President of the Supreme Court of Brazil...

George Gray Molina

Dialogue Member Dr. George Gray Molina is the former Chief Economist for the United Nations...

Gustavo Grobocopatel

Dialogue Member Gustavo Grobocopatel is an Argentine agricultural engineer and businessman. He is CEO of...

Rebeca Grynspan

Dialogue Member Rebeca Grynspan is a Costa Rican economist, currently serving as secretary-general of the...

Richard Haass

Dialogue Member Richard Haass is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2013,...

Tara Hariharan

Dialogue Member Tara Hariharan is the director of Global Macro Research at NWI Management LP,...

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Dialogue Member Fernando Henrique Cardoso was president of Brazil from 1995 to 2003. Currently, he...

Carla A. Hills

Dialogue Member Carla A. Hills is chair and CEO of Hills & Company. She served...

María Ángela Holguín

Dialogue Member María Ángela Holguín served as the foreign minister of Colombia from 2010 to...

Donna Hrinak

Dialogue Member Donna Hrinak served as US ambassador to Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, and the Dominican...

Osvaldo Hurtado

Dialogue Member Osvaldo Hurtado served as president of Ecuador from 1981 to 1984....

Enrique Iglesias

Dialogue Member Enrique Iglesias was the first secretary general of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB)...

Roberta Jacobson

Dialogue Member Roberta Jacobson served as the US ambassador to Mexico from 2016 to 2018....

Marcos Jank

Dialogue Member Marcos Jank is CEO of the Asia-Brazil Agro Alliance. Formerly, he was president...

Earl Jarrett

Jarrett is the deputy chairman and chief executive officer of The Jamaica National Group....

Trinidad Jiménez

Dialogue Member Trinidad Jiménez is the director of public affairs and global strategy at Telefónica,...

Natalia Kanem

Dialogue Member Natalia Kanem became the fifth executive director of the United Nations Population Fund...

Ricardo Lagos

Dialogue Member Ricardo Lagos served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During his...

Hernán Larraín

Dialogue Member Hernán Larraín served as minister of justice and human rights from 2018 to...

Claudia López

Dialogue Member Claudia López is the mayor of Bogotá, previously serving as a senator for...

Abraham Lowenthal

Abraham Lowenthal is professor emeritus of international relations at the University of Southern California. He...

Lilia Luciano

Dialogue Member Lilia Luciano is an award-winning national correspondent and anchor at CBS News. She...

Luis Miguel Castilla

Dialogue Member Luis Miguel Castilla is a Peruvian economist and the former minister of economy...

Valeria Luiselli

Dialogue Member Valeria Luiselli is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction whose books are...

Jacky Lumarque

Jacky Lumarque is the rector of the Université Quisqueya since 2007, and previously served as...

Nora Lustig

Dialogue Member and non-resident senior fellow Nora Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin...

Helio Magalhães

Dialogue Member Helio Lima Magalhães served as COO of Citibank Brazil from 2012 to 2017,...

Susana Malcorra

Dialogue Member Susana Malcorra is the president and cofounder of GWL Voices for Change and...

John McCarter

Dialogue Member John McCarter is a former president and CEO of GE Latin America....

Barbara McDougall

Dialogue Member Barbara McDougall is a Canadian politician and served as Chair of the International...

Thomas McLarty

Dialogue Member Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty, III is chair of McLarty Associates, which he co-founded...

Peter McPherson

Dialogue Member Peter McPherson is the president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities....

Doris Meissner

Dialogue Member Doris Meissner is a senior fellow at Migration Policy Institute, where she directs...

Carlos D. Mesa

Dialogue Member Carlos D. Mesa is a historian, politician, and journalist and was the President...

Billie Miller

Dame Billie Miller is a Barbadian lawyer, politician, and former Deputy Prime Minister. She is...

Paula Moreno

Dialogue Member Paula Moreno is the founding president of Manos Visibles. From 2007 to 2010,...

Stanley Motta

Dialogue Member Stanley Motta is president of Motta International and chair of Copa Holdings, ASSA...

Mia Amor Mottley

Dialogue Member Mottley is the Prime Minister of Barbados and was an event speaker at...

Moisés Naím

Dialogue Member Moisés Naím is an internationally-syndicated columnist and best-selling author, as well as a...

Amna Nawaz

Dialogue Member Amna Nawaz joined PBS NewsHour in April 2018 and serves as senior national...

Michelle Nunn

Dialogue Member Michelle Nunn is president and CEO of CARE USA, a leading humanitarian organization...

Shannon O’Neil

Shannon O’Neil is vice president of studies and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for...

José Octavio Bordón

Dialogue Member José Octavio Bordón is the director of the Center for Global Affairs at...

Tania Ortiz Mena

Dialogue Member Tania Ortiz Mena is IEnova’s chief executive officer since September 2018 and member...

Salvador Paiz

Dialogue Member Salvador Paiz is a Guatemalan businessman and President of FunSEPA...

Beatriz Paredes

Beatriz Paredes was president of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the first woman to...

Pierre Pettigrew

Dialogue Member Pierre Pettigrew served Canada as minister of foreign affairs, minister of international trade,...

Sonia Picado

Dialogue Member Sonia Picado is president of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. From 1994...

Juan Carlos Pinzón

Dialogue Member Amb. Juan Carlos Pinzón is the former minister of defense of Colombia and...

Jacqueline Pitanguy

Dialogue Member Jacqueline Pitanguy is the founder and Executive Director of CEPIA, a non-profit dedicated...

Alfonso Prat-Gay

Alfonso Prat-Gay is the President of Fundación Políticas de Gobierno, a former National Deputy from...

Jorge Quiroga

Dialogue Member Jorge Quiroga is a former President of Bolivia and President of FUNDEMOS, a...

Marta Lucía Ramírez

Marta Lucía Ramírez is the vice president and foreign minister of Colombia. She is a...

Julissa Reynoso

Dialogue Member Julissa Reynoso was the ambassador of the United States to Uruguay from 2012...

Guillermo Rishchynski

Dialogue Member Guillermo Rishchynski was the Executive Director for Canada at the Inter-American Development Bank...

María Luisa Romero

Dialogue Member María Luisa Romero is a human rights advocate who served as minister of...

Francis Rooney

Dialogue Member Francis Rooney is a Republican Member of Congress from Florida who was recently...

Linda Rottenberg

Dialogue Member Linda Rottenberg is the co-founder and CEO of Endeavor....

Andrés Rozental

Dialogue Member Andrés Rozental has represented Mexico as ambassador to the United Kingdom (1995-1997), deputy...

Carlos Saladrigas

Dialogue Member Carlos A. Saladrigas is Chairman and CEO of Regis HR Group and the...

Julio María Sanguinetti

Dialogue Member Julio María Sanguinetti was president of Uruguay from 1985 to 1990 and from...

Juan Manuel Santos

Dialogue Member Juan Manuel Santos was president of Colombia from 2010 until 2018. Santos entered...

Arturo Sarukhán

Dialogue Member & Ambassador Arturo Sarukhán is an international strategic consultant and advisor based in...

Timothy Scully

Dialogue Member Timothy Scully is a professor of political science at the University of Notre...

Donna Shalala

Dialogue Member Donna Shalala is member of the House of Representatives representing Florida's 27th congressional...

Thomas A. Shannon, Jr.

Dialogue Co-Chair Tom Shannon spent over 30 years in the foreign service, most recently as...

Marina Silva

Dialogue Member Marina Silva is one of Brazil's leading political figures and environmentalists and was...

Luis Guillermo Solís

Dialogue Member Luis Guillermo Solís was president of Costa Rica from 2014 until 2018. He...

Matias Spektor

Matias Spektor is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Fundação Getulio Vargas’s School of...

James Stavridis

Dialogue Member Admiral James Stavridis is a retired US Navy admiral and was the dean...

Eduardo Stein

Dialogue Member Eduardo Stein served as vice president of Guatemala from 2004 to 2008 and...

Paula Stern

Dialogue Member Paula Stern is the founder and chair of the Stern Group. She served...

Oliver Stuenkel

Dialogue Member Oliver Stuenkel is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Getúlio Vargas...

Maria Fernanda Teixeira

Dialogue Member Maria Fernanda Teixeira is a Brazilian businesswoman with over thirty years of experience...

Martín Torrijos

Dialogue Member Martín Torrijos served as president of Panama from 2004 to 2009....

Antonia Urrejola

Dialogue Member Antonia Urrejola is a non-resident senior fellow with the Office of the President...

Juan Manuel Urtubey

Dialogue Member Juan Manuel Urtubey was the governor of the province of Salta in Argentina....

Priscila Vansetti

Dialogue Member Priscila Vansetti is the Director of Global Strategy & Business Development at Corteva...

Mario Vargas Llosa

Dialogue Member Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, politician, and Nobel Laureate in Literature....

Roberto Veiga González

Dialogue Member Roberto Veiga González is a lawyer and former magazine editor. In May 2014,...

María Eugenia Vidal

Dialogue Member María Eugenia Vidal is an Argentine politician and governor of the province of...

Joaquín Villalobos

Joaquín Villalobos is a Salvadoran economist, former politician, and former guerrilla leader...

Elena Viyella de Paliza

Dialogue Member Elena Viyella de Paliza is president of Inter-Química, a Dominican importer and exporter...

Alberto Vollmer

Dialogue Member Alberto Vollmer is chair and CEO of Ron Santa Teresa, a rum distiller...

Ernesto Zedillo

Dialogue Member Ernesto Zedillo served as president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000. Presently, he...

Robert Zoellick

Dialogue Member Robert Zoellick was president of the World Bank Group from 2007 to 2012....

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