Cities and the Future of Work in Latin America

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta is the current Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires and has been since 2015. Along with President Mauricio Macri, he co-founded the political party Compromiso para el Cambio, which was renamed Propuesta Republicana (PRO) in 2005. When Macri...

Daniel Martínez is the mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay. In 2014 he was reelected as a senator for the Socialist Party, a post that he held until he became mayor on July 6, 2015. From 2010 to 2014, Martínez was the senator who led the highest number of commissions, including Industry...

Raisa Banfield has been the vice mayor of Panama City, Panama since 2014. She is tasked with administrating new projects such as the Master Plan for the Development of Panama City. In 2010, Banfield founded and currently serves as the president of Sustainable Panama (PASOS), an...

Marta Cruz is the co-founder and director of NXTP Labs, an accelerator and the most active investment fund in Latin America with a portfolio of 194 tech start-ups from 16 countries. She is also a senior advisor at the Asociación Argentina de Capital Privado, Emprendedor y Semilla...

Ignacio Federico is business and economy editor at La Nación. Prior to joining La Nación in 2015, he worked as an editor at El Cronista Comercial, overseeing several sections including “Who’s Who,” “Vision of Leadership,” and “Guide to Investing in Argentina.” Ignacio graduated...

Jhony Fernando Fernández is a community leader in Cali, Colombia. He hails from Poblado 2, a low-income neighborhood with gang activity. Fernández joined a municipal government program called Territories of Inclusion and Opportunities (TIOS) and later found work with Cali’s...

Eduardo Levy Yeyati is the dean of the School of Government of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and founder and academic director of its Center for Evidence-based Policy. He is also visiting professor of public policy at Harvard´s Kennedy School of Government and head researcher at...

Brandee McHale is president of the Citi Foundation and head of corporate citizenship at Citi. She oversees the Citi Foundation’s global grantmaking strategy and leads Citi’s citizenship efforts. For over three decades, McHale has dedicated her career to philanthropy and...

One evening after work in 2003, Martín Migoya got together with three of his friends at a pub in Buenos Aires and identified some of the gaps that existed in the emerging global software industry. They were inspired to build a new pure play company that would create software for...

Ricardo Mora is co-head of Latin America and Head of Americas Global Currencies and Emerging Markets Sales at Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2008 and was named partner in 2010. Prior to joining the firm, Mora was a managing director at Deutsche...

Carmen Roman Arancibia, a lawyer from the Universidad Gabriela Mistral of Chile, has more than 18 years of experience in the retail area.  She started her career in “Fontaine and Co.” law firm and since 1999 has worked in a Chilean supermarkets chain, owned by the Dutch...

Carolina Millán Ronchetti is a journalist at Bloomberg News. Based in Buenos Aires since 2015, her focus is the coverage of the country's markets, including stocks, bonds, and the foreign exchange market. Millán Ronchetti's work has previously appeared in outlets including the Gl...

Brian Winter is editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly and the vice president for policy at Americas Society/Council of the Americas. A best-selling author, analyst, and speaker, he has been living and breathing Latin American politics for the past 20 years. Winter spent a decade...

Eugene Zapata-Garesché is the managing director for Latin America at 100 Resilient Cities (100RC). He oversees the nonprofit’s work with cities throughout the region, helping to build the capacities of local governments and develop international networks of urban cooperation...