Juan Carlos Capuñay was formerly ambassador of Peru to China, Singapore, and Japan, and executive director of the APEC Secretariat.
José Francisco Mafla joined Brigard Urrutia in 2006 and has been a partner at the firm since 2015.
Nicolás Albertoni is a professor at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay and non-resident associate researcher at the University of Southern California’s Security and Political Economy (SPEC) Laboratory.
Steven Holmes joined the Inter-American Dialogue in 2022 as a Program Associate in the Asia and Latin America Program.
Ambassador Akira Yamada is the special assistant to the Japanese minister of foreign affairs.
Maki Kobayashi is the director general of the Latin America and Caribbean Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
Mark Lopes is the chief operating officer for Partnership for Central America.
Jonathan Casey is chief integration officer at Nissha Medical Technologies.
Itaru Motobayashi is the executive vice president of Yazaki North America, an independent Japanese automotive component maker and supplier.
Kota Sakaguchi is the director of the Central America & the Caribbean Division of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
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