Authors

Oscar Arias Sánchez is serving his second term as president of Costa Rica and is the 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate.

Adriana Cisneros de Griffin is vice president, office of the chairman and CEO of Cisneros Group of Companies and vice chairman of the Fundación Cisneros.

Rosiska Darcy de Oliveira is a writer, former president of Brazil’s Council of Women’s Rights and founder and president of the Women’s Leadership Center in Rio de Janeiro.

Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter is chairman of the Gerdau Board of Directors.

Phil Fontaine is National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada.

Cristina Eguizábal is a Central American political scientist and is currently director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University.

Victor Leonel Juan Martínez is a lawyer and journalist and is currently director of the magazine En Marcha, published in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Ana Vilma Albanez de Escobar is currently the vice president of El Salvador.

Marcos Galperín created MercadoLibre in 1999 and has served as CEO and director since the company started.

Jorge Luis García Pérez Antúnez, one of Cuba’s longest-serving political prisoners, was released in April 2008 after serving 17 years.

John Manley is currently counsel at McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Toronto and Ottawa. Between 1993 and 2003, he served as deputy prime minister, minister of foreign affairs, minister of industry, and minister of finance of Canada.

María Otero is president and CEO of ACCION International.

Felipe Bosch is director of Corporación Multinversiones, a conglomerate comprising flour milling, poultry, construction, and restaurants.

Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga was president of Bolivia and currently leads the opposition party in Congress.

Marcelo Claure is the founder, chairman, president & CEO of Brightstar Corp. and a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum.