Argentina

MERCEDES DE CAMPOS DE ORIS DE ROA
Mercedes de Campos de Oris de Roa is the President of the Asociación de Ejecutivos en Desarrollo de Recursos para Organizaciones Sociales (AEDROS).   She is also founding member of the Rockefeller Foundation's Philanthropy Workshop in Argentina and member of the board of directors of Fundación Vida Silvestre de Argentina and El Banco de Alimentos. She was one of the founding partners of D.A.R. (Desarrollo Argentino de Recursos), the first fundraising consulting firm in Argentina. From 1993 to 2000 she served as Director of Development Universidad de San Andrés. In 1995 she became a certified fund-raising executive

 NICOLAS DUCOTE 
 Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs, Universidad de San Andrés; Masters in Public Policy, JFK School of Government, Harvard University. Co-founder and Executive Director of CIPPEC. In public service he held the posts of Director of the National School of Government, Director of the Center for International Cooperation in Public Administration, and Board Member of the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP). He has been an international consultant for the United Nations, Transparency International, the InterAmerican Development Bank, CEPAL, World Economic Forum, and the Overseas Development Institute, among others. Author of numerous articles on public policy in the argentine national media, and speaker and/or coordinator in over 50 national and international conferences.  He sits on the Editorial Committee of El Cronista Comercial, the leading business journal in the country, and on the Boards of the Harvard Club of Argentina, Universidad de San Andres, Foro Social para la Transparencia. He also does regular volunteer work advising other NGOs, civic groups, and social organizations on institutional development and advocacy in the public interest.

GUSTAVO HERRERO
Since 1999, Gustavo Herrero is the Executive Director of Harvard Business Latin America Research Center (LARC), located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An experienced businessman, he has a distinguished career in management with a variety of Argentine companies. For 12 years, he served as CEO of Argentina's largest integrated wool textile mill and then headed its leading paper and packaging manufacturer.  Herrero sat on the board of directors of the HBS Alumni Association, and he is a past president of the Harvard Club of Argentina, on which Board he continues to serve. He sits on the boards of Accion International and LASPAU, as well as on boards of various Argentine companies, and on the advisory boards of educational institutions in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela. He received a degree in business administration from the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa in Buenos Aires in 1972 and got his MBA as a Fulbright scholar at Harvard in 1976.

FERNANDO ORIS DE ROA
Fernando Oris de Roa, recently started a new company, a "for profit" venture for public service to Argentina to develop new markets. In July 2003, he returned to Argentina, following a year in the mid career masters program in public administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was the Executive Director and minority shareholder of S.A. San Miguel Company.  In 1993 he acquired the San Miguel Company, a citrus company in Argentina that was in very bad shape, and he performed a turnaround that made it the largest lemon company in the world, employing over 6,450 people in the Province of Tucum?°n where new jobs are badly needed.  Oris de Roa worked from 1970 to 1993 for Continental Grain Co., a multinational agribusiness where he occupied several trading and management positions in the U.S., Spain, Switzerland, Brazil and Argentina. He served as President of Continental Argentina in charge of Latin America. He studied Psychology under the supervision of Dr. Ernesto Liendo with whom he published a book in 1999 which he compared business management and psychoanalytical therapeutic methods in patient treatment. He used business turnaround techniques as an analogy to patient recovery. In June, 2003 Oris de Roa graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (MPA).

Bolivia

FERNANDO CAMPERO
In June 2003, Fernando Campero finished his appointment as a Visiting Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.  Since returning to Bolivia, he has worked with a financial group as well as been a key player with the Harvard Project on Bolivia, Chile, Peru: exploring opportunities for mutual gain. He has worked extensively in Bolivia both as a concerned citizen and as a public servant.  In 1987 he participated in the design and conduction of the Emergency Social Fund, a world pioneer in social interventions. In March 1992 he joined the Paz Zamora administration as Minister of Exports and Economic Competitiveness.  From 1996 to 2001 he served as a private-sector Board member at the Bolivian Central Bank.  In 1999, he published the book "Bolivia in the Twentieth Century  - The Shaping of Contemporary Bolivia" with the Harvard Club of Bolivia.  He is co-founder of PRISMA, a nonpartisan and independent think-tank and co-founder of the weekly newspaper PULSO which addresses Bolivian public issues. He has served on several boards of directors in both non profit and for profit organizations; as Vice Chairman of AMETEX a textile conglomerate, as a Member of the Board of Directors of Universidad Privada Boliviana - UPB, and as Vice Chairman of BB Intercapital, a US energy project development company. In 1989 he conceived and developed TELECEL, the first cellular telephone company in Bolivia. He earned an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1980, an M.S. degree in Economics at the Université de Lausanne in 1982, and a master in Public Administration degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1986.

Chile

ALEJANDRO ARAVENA
Alejandro Aravena is Adjunct Professor at the Universidad Católica and Visiting Professor at the Harvard Design School. He is an architect and opened his own professional studio in 1994.  His professional work has been published and awarded extensively: Venice Biennale (1991), Mies van der Rohe Award 2000 (finalist, Barcelona) and most recently in the Iberoamerican Biennale 2002. In 1999 he was Visiting Professor in the Architectural Association in London. His most recent book is El Lugar de la Arquitectura (Ed ARQ, 2002). He was named the best architect under 40 by the Chilean Architects Association. He is currently building the Medical School of the Universidad Católica, designing the Tower for Digital Education for the same university, the Wine Museum of Chile, the Masterplan for the Metropolitan Park of Santiago and the Concert Hall of Chile, finishing the book Materia de Arquitectura (Architecture Matters, Ed ARQ 2003). He is director of ELEMENTAL, an international initiative of Harvard University and Universidad Católica de Chile, that will bring to Chile the best architects in the world to design and build 7 exemplary low cost housing projects throughout the country. Aravena graduated as an architect from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 1992 and studied in the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (1992-93).

VICTORIA HURTADO
Victoria Hurtado is a Chilean lawyer from Universidad de Chile. She works for the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez as Associate Director of International Relations. On 1994 she won the USAID scholarship to do an exchange program at Yale Law School, from 1994-1997 she worked at the Finance Minister of Chile as the lawyer in charge of negotiating Financial Services at the WTO.  During 1998 to 2000 she studied the Master on Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government and did an internship on the Inter-American Development Bank. On 2001 she worked for 8 months as the Acting Vice Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.  The same year she started working at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile as the Academic Coordinator of the School of Government where she helped creating the Master on Public Administration for Chilean executives of the Public Sector. She taught Negotiation at that Master and was Professor of Governance and Institutions at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez's College.

LEÓN LARRAÍN
León Larraín is an International Partner of Baker & Mckenzie. As a lawyer his practice areas are: banking and finance, corporate and partnership law, mergers and acquisitions and taxation. He is a Chilean correspondent for Tax Notes International and a member of the Chilean Bar Association.  He was a consultant with the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) for tax reform in Bolivia (1991) and customs reform in Peru (1991-1992). Larraín  has a degree in Law from Universidad de Chile (Licensee in Juridical and Social Sciences, LL.B.); Post-graduate studies in Tax Law, Law School, Universidad de Chile, 1985-1986; Harvard Law School, International Tax Program (ITP), 1989-1990;  Harvard Negotiation Workshop (PIL) (1997).

Peru

FELIPE ANTONIO CUSTER
Tony Custer is Chairman, CEO and majority shareholder of Corporación Custer, comprised of eight companies involved in retail and wholesale pharmaceuticals, and the production and distribution of foodstuffs and other consumer products with approximately US$100 million sales. He is President of VOXIVA -Peru, an innovative "social enterprise for profit" worldwide telecom company connecting the world's non-internet population to government, health and education services.  He is also the Founder and President of  Fundación Felipe Antonio Custer which has created and runs the "Aprendamos Juntos" Program.  The Program runs in low income areas of Lima where therapists and teachers give twice weekly individual remedial courses to children with learning disabilities. 600 children are enrolled in the Program for 2003. Custer is also the author of  The Art of Peruvian Cuisine,   Peru's all time top-selling cook book and the first to have a US edition. All the proceeds from the sale of this book as well as the sale of three children's books written by him are used as the principal means of support for the Foundation. He is also one of the Directors of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in Washington D.C. and member of several non-profit educational and cultural organization boards. He is a member of Harvard's College class of 1976 and Harvard Business School Class of 1979.

JOSÉ GONZALES QUIJANO
José Gonzáles Quijano is a professor and member of the Board of the Center of Development Management at the Universidad del Pacífico, the Executive Director of the Board of the Marine Economy, and the Secretary General of the Sima-Perú Corporation SA. During 2000 -2001 he served as the Adjunct Professor of Regional Security at the Joint Forces Staff College and the US National Defense University in the US. He is the author of numerous studies and articles in his area of expertise, including an analysis of commercial integration in the book "Ecuador-Peru: A Necessary Harmony," published by Instituto Apoyo. He graduated from the US navy (Anapolis), from the MIT and from the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government with a Masters in public administration, where he studied economics, politics and national security.

Uruguay

FRANCISCO RAVECCA JONES
Francisco Ravecca has extensive experience in international business, entrepreneurship, and venture financing. He is a founding partner of FicusCapital. Additionally, Francisco is Managing Director for Endeavor Uruguay, a U.S. organization with a very strong network throughout the Americas and in South Africa, that promotes economic and social development in developing countries through entrepreneurship. From 1999 to 2004 Ravecca was a Managing Partner at AVANTE, a professional services firm, based in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he offered business consulting and identified, structured and developed business opportunities throughout the region, providing access to diverse forms of financing and international expansion. In 1999 he launched DeRemate.com in Uruguay, holding the position of Managing Director and later as Director of Business Development for the Region (Latam). Between 1997 and 1999 he worked for BankBoston Argentina as a Manager in the Specialized Industries Division, focusing on investment banking and corporate banking deals in the Healthcare, Mining, Transportation and Environmental sectors. Previously, he worked for Advent International Corporation at the company's headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, sourcing deals for Private Equity investments both in the U.S. and Latin America. Between 1992 and 1995, Francisco worked for the law firm Díaz Estapé and for Banco Surinvest in Montevideo, Uruguay.  Holds a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Uruguay (1994) and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1997).

USA

LAUREN REISS
Lauren Reiss has had a close association with the David Rockefeller Center since her days as a Harvard College undergraduate, working as a DRCLAS intern during her final two years at Harvard. She was also the recipient of a DRCLAS travel grant to go to Peru for her senior honors thesis. After stints at Disney and start-up technology company called iBlast in Los Angeles, she returned to Harvard to attend the Harvard Business School, where she graduated with an MBA in 2003.  She is currently in a marketing fellowship program at WPP, one of the largest marketing and communication services firms.