Kolleen Ku is a PhD candidate in Art History at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, working on global modern and contemporary art. Her dissertation project explores the convergence of modernist abstraction, Asian racialization, and alien citizenship through the work of East Asian diasporic artists in the early twentieth-century United States. Originally from Hong Kong, Kolleen received her B.A. from Columbia University in Art History and English. She was the 2023-24 Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art. (Photo credit: Marcin J.

Howie Chen is a New York-based curator engaged in collaborative art production and research. He is currently the director and curator of 80 Washington Square East (80WSE) gallery at NYU.

Mariola V. Alvarez is associate professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art and director of Graduate Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She is the author of The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Brazilian Modernism, 1954-1964, published by the University of California Press in 2023. She co-edited with Ana Franco, New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America with Routledge, which expands the current research by leading scholars in the field.

Yasufumi Nakamori joined Asia Society in August 2023 as Director of the Museum and Vice President of Arts and Culture. An experienced museum leader, curator, and noted scholar, he is responsible for overseeing the museum’s exhibition program and collection, as well as arts and culture programming across the organization.

Alejandro Romero is LLYC's Global CEO. He is in charge of the fulfillment of the company’s Strategic Plan, driving LLYC’s CEOs in Europe, the United States and Latin America to achieve the business objectives. He directly leads the Key Clients plan and the Healthcare and Mining global plan accelerators. He is actively involved in our M&A and inorganic growth strategy, as well as in LLYC Venturing, our corporate venture initiative. In addition, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of LLYC SA since 2011, where he was appointed as CEO in 2022.

Ricardo Torres-Pérez is a research fellow and adjunct professor at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University in Washington DC, where he is now leading a network of emerging Cuban scholars. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Havana and was a professor at the Centro de Estudios de la Economía Cubana (CEEC). He has received fellowships from Harvard University, Columbia University, American University, Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Finland’s Central Bank. He has published several books and articles in international journals.

John McIntire is an early-stage investor and advisor focusing primarily on tech-enabled companies straddling the U.S. and Latin America. As a director working alongside management teams, he has helped to raise over $200 million in venture capital for businesses in the edtech and software sectors.

Ricardo "Ric" Herrero is the executive director of the Cuba Study Group, a membership-based, non-partisan organization that analyzes U.S.-Cuba relations and develops policy options that aim to simultaneously advance U.S. national interests and the wellbeing of the Cuban people.

Adriana Cisneros, CEO of Cisneros, leads a privately-owned enterprise with a rich 95 -year legacy in global business operations. Under her strategic vision, Adriana has led Cisneros into a new era of innovation and diversification through its three divisions: Cisneros Real Estate, Cisneros Interactive and Cisneros Media.