Dame Billie Antoinette Miller,DA,OCC is a Barbadian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister. Miller is a member of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP).
Anne Woods Patterson is an American diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer. She served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from 2013 to 2017. She previously served as United States Ambassador to Egypt until 2013 and as United States Ambassador to Pakistan from July 2007 to October 2010.
Luis Alberto Moreno Mejía is a Colombian businessman and former diplomat who served as President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) from 2005 to 2020. He was also Colombia's Ambassador to the United States under President Andrés Pastrana Arango from 1998 to 2005,and is the former President of the Instituto de Fomento Industrial. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at the World Economic Forum (WEF) since 2011.
Alicia Isabel Adriana Bárcena Ibarra is a Mexican biologist and the current Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico. She was the Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2023 to 2024 and previously served as the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from July 2008 to March 2022.
Cresencio "Cris" S. Arcos Jr. is an American diplomat.
Larry Leon Palmer was an American former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean from 2012 to 2015. He was the United States Ambassador to Honduras from 2002 to 2005. He also served as the President of the Inter-American Foundation from 2005 to June 2010.
Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In early 2017,Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee,Rex Tillerson,was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee,John J. Sullivan.
The Inter-American Dialogue,also known as the Dialogue or IAD,is a U.S.-based think tank in the field of international affairs primarily related to the Western Hemisphere. Headquartered in Washington,D.C.,it intends to "foster democratic governance,prosperity,and social equity in Latin America and the Caribbean". The Dialogue's research areas focus on the rule of law,education,migration,remittances,energy,climate change and extractive industries.
Alberto Miguel Fernandez is a Cuban-American former diplomat. He was the head of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN),which includes Alhurra. Fernandez is currently vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute,a position he held 2015–2017. He is a member of the Madrid Forum,an international group of right-wing and far-right individuals organized by Vox.
Patricia Espinosa Cantellano is a Mexican diplomat who served as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2016 to 2022. She was Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón;and served as Mexican Ambassador to Austria,Germany,Slovenia and Slovakia. Because of her diplomatic career,she was appointed Ambassador Emeritus of Mexico in 2012.
Thomas Franklin "Mack" McLarty,III is an American business and political leader who served as President Bill Clinton's first White House Chief of Staff from 1993 to June 1994,and subsequently as counselor to the president and special envoy for the Americas,before leaving government service in June 1998.
Liliana Ayalde is the former United States Ambassador to Brazil and was previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for the United States State Department with responsibility for the Offices of Caribbean Affairs,Central American Affairs and Cuban Affairs. From January 2017 to September 2019 she served as the Civilian Deputy to the Commander and Foreign Policy Advisor for the United States Southern Command.
Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón is a Dominican Republic-born American attorney and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra from 2022 to 2024. Prior to her service as ambassador she was the chief of staff to First Lady Jill Biden. She formerly served as a litigation and international arbitration partner with the international law firm Winston &Strawn LLP. She was previously a partner with Chadbourne &Parke LLP,practicing in the firm's International Arbitration and Latin America groups. Reynoso is also affiliated with the faculty at Columbia University School of Law and the School of International and Public Affairs. From March 2012 until December 2014,she served as United States Ambassador to Uruguay. She is a former deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the United States Department of State. President Biden nominated her to be the next United States Ambassador to Spain on July 27,2021,being confirmed on December 18,2021.
The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is a regional bloc of Latin American and Caribbean states proposed on February 23,2010,at the Rio Group–Caribbean Community Unity Summit,and created on December 3,2011,in Caracas,Venezuela,with the signing of the Declaration of Caracas. It consists of 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and has five official languages.
The North-South Center,later named The Dante B. Fascell North-South Center at the University of Miami in honor of former U.S. Congressman and House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Dante Fascell,was an independent research and educational institution established in 1984 at the University of Miami in Coral Gables,Florida,United States. The North-South Center was closed by the university in December 2003.
Sino-Latin America relations are relations between China —which is by defined as either the People's Republic of China or the Republic of China —and the countries of Latin America. Such relations have become increasingly important between the region and Latin America.
John Randle Hamilton is an American diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Peru from 1999 to 2002,and as United States Ambassador to Guatemala from 2003 to 2005.
Jaime Aparicio Otero is the Bolivian Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States and was Bolivian Agent to the International Court of Justice,in the Hague,in the process against Chile related to the Silala waters. Ambassador Aparicio is a career diplomat,lawyer,journalist and a Washington-based legal and political advisor. He was also a political analyst working in international public and corporate affairs in Latin America,the Caribbean,North America,and Europe. He has a Law Degree from the Higher University of San Andrés of La Paz,the Bolivian Diplomatic Academy and the Institute d’Etudes Politiques commonly referred as Sciences Po de Paris.
Todd Crawford Chapman is an American career diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Brazil from 2020 to 2021 and as the United States ambassador to Ecuador from 2016 to 2019.
Francisco O. "Frank" Mora is an American academic who has served as the United States ambassador to the Organization of American States since January 2023.
