PhD in economics with experience in research, consultancy, policy making, health, education, journalism. Has been vice minister of Social Protection in Colombia, researcher at Harvard and at Fedesarrollo, editor of business and economics at Semana magazine and founding director of PROESA (think tank in health economics and policy). Has served as board member of organizations in the financial, social and technology sectors, and Dean of the School of Economics and Finance at Universidad Icesi in Colombia.

MSc in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC), Executive Master in Public Administration. He holds a Diploma of Advances Studies in innovation and research management. Ramon has more than ten years of experience in hospital and medical innovation and more than twenty years of experience in internationally funded research projects, mainly EU projects.

César Landa Arroyo has been Peru's foreign minister since February 1, 2022. He was a senior professor of constitutional law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. He has been a national and international constitutional consultant and arbitrator for public and private institutions. He is the former president and magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Peru (2004–2010), ad-hoc judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2003–2014) and vice minister of state in the Office of Justice (2004).

Santiago Rojas Arroyo is the north regional manager of the CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and the institution's representative in Peru. He held different positions such as minister of commerce, industry and tourism of Colombia; president of the Foreign Trade Bank – BANCOLDEX; general director of taxes and customs; adviser to the Colombian Mission to the WTO; director of the Colombian Institute of Foreign Trade; CAN legal consultant, among others.

Mr. Vickram Bharrat was born in Berbice, Region 6 and attended the New Amsterdam Multilateral Secondary School. His academic achievement includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Guyana and is qualified in the area of Public Management with a wealth of experience in governance and managerial competencies.

Cornelius Fleischhaker is a senior economist with the World Bank, covering macroeconomics and public finance in Angola and Sao Tome and Principe. In this role he leads budget support operations in both countries as well as analytical work on government expenditures, debt sustainability and other macroeconomic and public finance issues.

Miriam Kosmehl has been Senior Expert in the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Europe’s Future Program since 2017 working on the Eastern Partnership region from Berlin. Prior to that, she headed the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung’s office for Ukraine and Belarus 2012-2017. Previous positions include postings in Poland (OSCE ODIHR), Russia and Central Asia (Deutsche Bank Moscow and GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). Kosmehl studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau and Utrecht and holds a Second Legal State Examination of the District Court of Düsseldorf.

Shahin Vallée is head of DGAP’s Geo-Economics Program. Prior to that, he was a senior fellow in DGAP’s Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies.