Sol Carbonell serves as the Executive Director, responsible for guiding strategy, programming, faculty and student engagement, fundraising and donor relations, staffing, and budget. She manages resource allocation and planning and oversees the internal and external communication and outreach strategy for the Center. She overseas DRCLAS' offices abroad, in Brazil, Chile and Mexico, and collaborates with them on strategic priorities.

With more than 20 years of experience across multiple sectors, Carbonell comes to DRCLAS from the Federal Reserve, where she spent almost ten years focused on promoting the economic strength of low-income communities and leveraging the research and convening power of the Fed to inform policy and practice.

Carbonell holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She also studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Buenos Aires in her native Argentina and the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has been an advisor to national organizations such as the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and the Association of Latinos for America and is currently a board member at the Boston Museum of Science. She has been recognized for her community contributions by the U.S. Congress, InBusiness Magazine, the Boston Business Journal  and Amplify Latinx. 

Diane E. Davis is the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD). Before moving to Harvard in 2012, Davis served as the head of the International Development Group in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Trained as a sociologist with an interest in cities in Latin America (BA in Geography, Northwestern University; Ph.D. in Sociology, UCLA), Davis has published widely on the relations between urbanization and national development, urban governance, urban social movements, and informality in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. Her recent research has focused on urban violence as well as spatial strategies to minimize risk and foster resilience in the face of these and other vulnerabilities. She is also Co-Chair of the Mexico Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and a member of the DRCLAS Executive Committee.

Natalia Garbiras Díaz is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit at Harvard Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on comparative politics and political economy, examining civil conflict, post-conflict peace, governance, service delivery, elections, and accountability, with a regional focus on Latin America. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Conflict Management and Peace Science. She holds an M.A. in Economics from the University of Los Andes (Colombia). 

Sergio Jaramillo Caro served as High Commissioner for Peace for Juan Manuel Santos, the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, between 2012 and 2017. As National Security Advisor (2010-2012), he designed the “National Territorial Consolidation Policy” and in parallel led the secret negotiations in Havana with the country's largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that ended with the “General Agreement” (a framework agreement) of August 2012. He then served for five years as High Commissioner for Peace. 

Together with Humberto de la Calle, he led the public negotiations for four years in Havana. In 2016, the Colombian Congress approved a peace accord with the FARC, ending one of the world's longest running conflicts. As Peace Commissioner Mr. Jaramillo also had to oversee the disarmament and demobilization process of the FARC, which ended in August of 2017 when the UN verification mission extracted the last container with weapons from a FARC cantonment area. 

Prior to serving in this role, Mr. Jaramillo served as Vice Minister of Defence for Policy and International Affairs, where he was responsible for security policy, intelligence and human rights. In particular, he sought to establish a state presence in conflict-afflicted territories throughout Colombia. 

 Mr. Jaramillo has served in a wide array of government positions throughout his career, including as advisor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in charge of the Diplomacy for Peace Program and political advisor at the Embassy of Colombia in France. In addition to his service in government, he was executive director of Ideas for the Peace Foundation – FIP in Bogotá (2003-2006). 

Mr. Jaramillo studied philosophy and Greek at the University of Toronto and at Oxford University. He holds an M.Phil in philosophy from the University of Cambridge and for many years did postgraduate work in Greek at the University of Heidelberg. He served as Colombian Ambassador to the EU and Belgium (2017-2018). In the last few years, he has been advising negotiations in various parts of the world (Afghanistan/ Doha, Venezuela, confidential talks in Africa, among others) based in Brussels. He is currently President of Acordemos Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia. 

 He has also been leading the campaign ¡Aguanta Ucrania! of Latin American solidarity with Ukraine. 

Carolina de Mattos Ricardo is a Lawyer and a sociologist. She has a master's in legal Sociology (University of São Paulo). She has been a World Bank and IDB consultant on public safety and crime prevention issues. She was a fellow in the Draper Hills Summer Fellows program (2018) offered by the Center on Development, Democracy and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, CA. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Disarmament Matters of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. She is the Executive Director of the Instituto Sou da Paz, a nongovernmental organization focused on reducing violence and promoting democracy in Brazil. 

Mónica Serrano is Professor of International Relations at El Colegio de México. She serves on the United Nations University (UNU) Council; is part of the International Faculty of the Doctorate on Organised Crime at the University of Milan; and an Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Her research focuses on the interfaces between security, drug-trafficking/organised crime and human rights. She is especially concerned with the consequent tensions for the regional and global governance architectures. 

She was the founding Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (2008-2011), Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute at CUNY, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies, Oxford University and co-editor of Global Governance. She served on the International Advisory Board of the FRAME Project—Fostering Human Rights Among European (External and Internal) Policies—and on the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System ACUNS. 

Mónica Serrano has taught at Oxford University, the Institute of Latin American Studies, London University, and at the Universitá Degli Studi Di Milano. and has published extensively on international security and Latin America, with particular reference to international institutions, security, human rights, transnational crime and civil-military relations. 

Her recent books include: Human Rights Regimes in the Americas (2009); After Oppression: Transitional Justice in Latin America and Eastern Europe (2012); Mexico’s Security Failure: Collapse into Criminal Violence (2012); The International Politics of Human Rights. Rallying to the R2P Cause? (2014); El Tratado de Tlatelolco. Una mirada retrospectiva a medio siglo de su firma (2017) and Verdad, Justicia y Memoria. Derechos Humanos y Justicia Transicional en México (2023). She currently serves on the editorial boards of Conflict, Security and Development, Global Responsibility to Protect, Foro Internacional and Perfiles Latinoamericanos. 

Marcia Castro is Andelot Professor of Demography, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Chair of the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She has projects on malaria, COVID-19, arboviruses, infant/child mortality and development, and climate change in the Brazilian Amazon. Castro serves on several advisory boards in Brazil, including the Institute for the Studies of Health Policies (IEPS), the Science Center for Early Childhood (NCPI), and Instituto Todos Pela Saúde (ITpS). She earned a PhD in Demography from Princeton University. 

Carlos Alvarado Quesada (1980) served as the 48th President of Costa Rica (2018-2022). Under his leadership, Costa Rica became the first country to create a decarbonization plan (2019) following the Paris Agreement. Also, Costa Rica expanded Coco Island’s protected area to safeguard 30% of Costa Rican oceans. His climate policies and successful response to COVID-19 earned widespread recognition.  

Alvarado’s administration implemented key reforms that strengthened the economy, provided stability, and led to Costa Rica's accession to the OECD. During his term, same-sex marriage was legalized, and emergency contraception and in cases of risk of life of women were made available. In 2019, he was named one of TIME’s "100 Next," and in 2022, received the Planetary Leadership Award from the National Geographic Society.

Nina Gualinga, from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon is a fierce advocate for the protection of the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous peoples’ rights. As a member and co founder of Mujeres Amazónicas, a collective of Indigenous women various Amazonian nations, Nina works with her Indigenous sisters against extractivism and gender-based violence. Mujeres Amazónicas has been instrumental in protecting Indigenous ancestral territories, notably halting the intrusion of oil companies in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. 

Enrique Ortiz is the Senior Program Director of the Andes Amazon Fund. Enrique is one of Peru's most respected conservationists. Trained as a tropical ecologist, he has worked ecological systems in coastal areas, deserts, highlands, and tropical forests. He is also known for his leadership throughout Peru and Latin America in biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. For over two decades working for philanthropic organizations, he has facilitated the funding to governments and organizations that support conservation in the Andes-Amazon, resulting in more than 20 million hectares of new protected areas throughout the region. He is also a founder and board member of several NGOs in various countries.  He holds degrees from San Marcos University (Peru) and Princeton University (USA). 

Izabella Teixeira is co-chair of the UN International Resource Panel and a member of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs High-Level Advisory Board. As Brazil's Minister of the Environment (2010-2016), she was pivotal in negotiating the Nagoya Protocol, the SDGs, the Minamata Convention, and the Paris Agreement, also serving on the High-Level Panel to develop what became the 2030 Agenda. In 2013, Teixeira received the "Champions of the Earth" Global Award for Political Leadership. She holds several private and non-profit board positions. Teixeira earned a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences (UnB) and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Energy Planning (UFRJ). 

Alvaro Rodríguez Arregui is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of IGNIA, the largest and oldest venture capital firm based out of Mexico that invests in world-class tech entrepreneurs solving problems faced by the emerging middle class in Latin America. Álvaro is a former Harvard Business School (HBS) Senior Lecturer and Executive Fellow. For the past four years he has been teaching entrepreneurship and financial inclusion to HBS MBA students and in HBS Executive Education programs. For 30 years he has been deeply involved in financial inclusion having served as the Chairman of the Board for Compartamos Banco (Gentera), the largest microfinance institution in the Americas, and Chair of ACCION International, a 65-year-old US non-profit organization. 

Martín Escobari is Head of Global Growth Equity, Co-President, and Managing Director. Martín is Chairman of the firm’s Investment Committee and also serves on the Portfolio and Executive Committees. 

Before joining General Atlantic in 2012, Martín was a Managing Director at Advent International where he focused on the financial services sector. Prior to that, he was Co-Founder and CFO of Submarino.com, a leading Brazilian online retailer that went public on the Bovespa and was sold to Lojas Americanas in 2006. Martin started his career as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. 

Martín Migoya is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Globant (NYSE: GLOB). He founded the company in 2003 with three friends - Guibert Englebienne, Martín Umaran and Néstor Nocetti - under the goal of finding the best talent to create technological solutions for companies all over the world. In 2014, Globant was the first Latin American software company to list on the New York Stock Exchange, and so ensued a period of exponential growth with a unique focus of empowering its teams throughout the company to scale up quickly and sustainably. 

Today, Globant has become the largest technology services company from Latin America serving the global market. It is the talent nexus to 30,000 employees in 35 countries and was recognized by Forbes as one of the fastest growing companies in the world in 2023.  Globant is one of the most relevant examples of global growth from the region.  

Passionate about entrepreneurship, teamwork, and disruptive innovation, he has co-authored two books, The Never Ending Digital Journey and Embracing the Power of AI, where he shares his thoughts on how technology is changing the world and how brands need to adapt to lead this revolution. Martín is an advocate for entrepreneurship as a pathway to development through his role as Chairman of Endeavor Argentina and regularly mentors entrepreneurs throughout the world. 

Business chambers and financial media have consistently recognized Martín’s expansive leadership style with several awards, including the CEO of the Year Award from Cronista Comercial and the Sadosky Prize in 2020, Top CEO of the Year at the CEO World Awards in 2019, the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Ernst & Young in 2013, and Globant’s recognition of the BRAVO Company of the Decade Award by the Council of the Americas. He holds an MBA from CEMA University and a degree in electronic engineering from the National University of La Plata. 

Although the duties of chief executive are consuming, Martín still makes time for his love for music, rehearsing and performing regularly with his band Sonic Diamonds. His passion has become part of Globant’s DNA, as many of the company’s facilities include rehearsal studios complete with instruments for Globers’ use. 

Linda Rottenberg is Co-Founder & CEO of Endeavor, the Global Network of Trust of, by, and for entrepreneurs in nearly 50 countries. Linda also oversees Endeavor Catalyst Funds, the global investment fund of Endeavor, which counts $540M AUM, 350+ investments, and 61 $1B+ “Unicorns” in its portfolio. She has been named “Innovator for the 21st Century” (TIME), one of “America’s Best Leaders” (U.S. News), “The World’s Mentor Capitalist” (Tom Friedman) and “The Entrepreneur Whisperer” (ABC). Linda serves on several public company boards (NYSE: GLOB; Lead Independent Director) (NYSE: OLO), (NYSE: SPARC); vice-chairs Yale’s President’s Council on International Activities; and joined the founding advisory board of Yale Ventures. Her book CRAZY IS A COMPLIMENT was a NYT bestseller. Linda is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School; she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, author Bruce Feiler; their identical twin daughters attend Yale College.

Daniel Vogel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bitso, a leading cryptocurrency exchange in Latin America. Under his leadership, Bitso has expanded its operations across multiple countries and has become a significant player in the crypto market. Vogel's vision and strategic direction have been instrumental in Bitso's growth and success.

Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard.  He is Senior Fellow at the Kettering Foundation and a Senior Democracy Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America.   He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die, which was a New York Times Best-Seller and was published in 30 languages, and Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point.    He has written or edited 11 other books, including Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2003), Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (with Lucan Way) (Princeton University Press, 2022).   He and Lucan Way are currently working on a book on democratic resilience across the world. 

Professor Levitsky has written for New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and The New Republic, and he has been a columnist for La Republica (Peru) and Folha de São Paulo (Brazil).

 Andrea Garza Erdmann is a Ph.D. candidate in the Romance Languages and Literature Department. Her dissertation focuses on contemporary Mexican literature regarding forced disappearances and femicides. She proposes new modes of reading that allow the reader to engage with violence without normalizing it. Furthermore, she stipulates these forms of reading can strengthen our ethical ties to each other. The secret is to allow oneself to be haunted. Andrea’s research interests also include oral histories, Cuir and decolonial theory, testimonio, immigration, media studies, and horror. Andrea has a master’s degree in Romance Languages and Literature from Harvard, and a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford.