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Advisory Board

Guillermo Alvelais
Director and Member of Planning & Finance Committee
Embotelladoras Arca

Patricia T. Meadow
VP, Regional and Community Banking Organizations and
Consumer Compliance
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Jaime Sepúlveda Amor
Executive Director, School of Global Health
University of California, San Francisco
Global Health Sciences

Carlos Slim Domit
Chairman of the Board
Grupo Carso, Telmex

Lynn Taliento
Partner
McKinsey & Company

José Antonio Fernández - Chairman

Grupo Femsa, Chairman and CEO
Jose Antonio Fernandez Carbajal serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB de CV (FEMSA). He was named Chief Executive Officer of FEMSA in January 1995 and has served as Chairman of the Board of FEMSA since 2001. Prior to joining FEMS in 1987, Mr. Fernández Carbajal served as the Chief Executive Officer of OXXO. He also held positions in FEMSA’s corporate area, as well as in the commercial department of the Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery.

Mr. Fernández Carbajal is also Chairman of the Board of Coca-Cola FEMSA, Vice Chairman of the Board of Monterrey TEC, and participates on Boards of important national and international companies, such as Grupo Financiero BBVA Bancomer, Grupo Industrial Bimbo, Industrias Peñoles, Aerolíneas Volaris, among others. He co-directs the Chapter Mexico of the Woodrow Wilson Center as President, and starting 13 years ago, he has been a professor of the course of Planning Systems in the Industrial and Systems Engineering degree in TEC de Monterrey, at campus Monterrey.

Mr. Fernández Carbajal earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from Monterrey TEC.

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Herbert Allen III – Vice Chairman

Allen & Company, President
Herbert Anthony Allen III is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Allen & Company, Inc. Mr. Allen is also the President at Allen Investment Management LLC.

Prior to his appointment, he served as an Executive Vice President and Managing Director at Allen & Company, Inc. He was employed at T. Rowe Price and worked at Botts & Company Ltd. in London.

Mr. Allen has been a Director of Convera Corp. since January 2002. He serves as an Alternative Director of Coca Cola FEMSA SA de CV and as a Director since 2001. Mr. Allen has been an Alternate Director of Grupo Televisa S.A. since April 2002 and serves as a Trustee of Prep for Prep.

Herbert A. Allen III obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the Yale University.

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Jonathan C. Hamilton - Secretary

White & Case LLP, Partner
Jonathan C. Hamilton is a Partner in the global law firm of White & Case LLP who practices in international dispute resolution and cross-border investment.

He commenced his career in the Firm's New York office and was based for years in the Mexico City office. He has particular experience in emerging markets and "has spent his career at the front of a trend" of Latin American arbitration and investment. He worked as a visiting associate with a leading firm in Lima, Peru, and has advised on matters related to 20 countries across the Americas.

His practice group is ranked Tier One in arbitration and he has been individually recognized by the International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration, Chambers and Global Arbitration Review, which called him a "name of the future." Mr. Hamilton is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Latin America, foreign investment and disputes.

Deeply committed to pro bono and public service, he advises charitable organizations and has served as an international election observer and on working groups on US-Latin American relations.

Mr. Hamilton holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University, a Masters from the University of North Carolina and a J.D. from the University of Virgina.

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Luis Miguel Pando Leyva – Assistant Treasurer

Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, General Director
Luis Miguel Pando is Chief Executive Officer of the most important Business Association in México, the Coordinating Business Council Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE). Previously, Mr. Pando served as CEO of National Chamber of Transformation Industry and of the Mexican Confederation of Industrial Chambers and Associations Among other activities, he has been Chairman of the National Association of Executives of Entrepreneur Organisms (Angecai), legal representative of the Center of Economic Studies of the Private Sector (CEESP) and Treasury of the Citizen Institute of Insecurity Studies (ICESI).

He has a Bachelors degree in Economics and several diploma courses of International Trade, Employment and Development, Information Recovery Systems, of Entrepreneur Cooperation and of Integral Development of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.

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James T. Polsfut- Treasurer

Cordillera Foundation, President
Throughout his career, James T. Polsfut has specialized in financial services management and philanthropic consulting. Currently, he serves as the president of the Cordillera Foundation, dedicated to supporting children and teenagers in Mexico, and as executive director and treasurer of the Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studies, dedicated to promoting understanding, communication, and tolerance among the diverse peoples of the world.

Previously, Mr. Polsfut served as the president of The Americas Roundtable of the Biennial of the Americas, a dialogue series held in Denver in July of 2010 which featured 90 dignitaries from throughout the 35 nations of the Western Hemisphere in front of an audience of more than 10,000 persons. Earlier in his career, he was a founding officer of the First Western Trust Bank, executive chairman of the board of Cordillera Asset Management; a general manager for GE Capital in Mexico and the U.S., administrative assistant for finance in the office of Denver Mayor Federico Peña, and an associate in the public finance office of Smith Barney.

Appointed by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter in February 2007, Mr. Polsfut currently serves as one of eleven commissioners of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education which oversees the 28 public colleges and universities in Colorado. In addition, he serves on the Social Science Foundation, which functions as the board of the University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies.

Mr. Polsfut earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an undergraduate degree in government from Harvard University.

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Pedro Aspe Armella

Protego Asesores Financieros, Chairman and CEO
Pedro Aspe, is co-Chairman of Evercore Partners, a leading investment bank boutique in the USA, and CEO of Protego, headquartered in Mexico City.

Dr. Aspe has been a professor of Economics at ITAM and has held a number of positions with the Mexican government: was founder of INEGI (National Bureau of Statistics), Secretary of Budget and Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico.

Dr. Aspe is a member of the Advisory Board of Stanford University’s Institute of International Studies and of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Economics of the MIT and member of the Board of CIDE.Currently he is a director of the McGraw Hill Companies and The Carnegie Corporation (New York) and of Televisa (Mexico); and sits on the Advisory Board of Marvin & Palmer (Wilmington) and Endeavor (Mexico). He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of MG Capital (Monterrey). Since 2005 he has been the Chairman of Volaris in Mexico City.

Mr. Aspe holds a B.A. in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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David R. Ayon

Loyola Marymount University, Senior Fellow
David R. Ayón is U.S. Director of the binational Focus Mexico/Enfoque México project at LCSLA. This project, in collaboration with three other universities, studies the political relationships of leaders of Mexican origin in the United States with Mexico. This study is the first of a planned series of projects at the Center as a “global city-region” and its reciprocal relations with the world.

Mr. Ayón has taught courses on politics and U.S.-Latin American relations at six colleges and universities, including two campuses of the University of California, Stanford, University of Southern California, and Loyola Marymount University. He has also worked as analyst, consultant, and special producer for Spanish language television news during 9 electoral cycles in the U.S. and 3 in Mexico since 1992.

Mr. Ayón is a Senior Advisor to the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and formerly associate director of the California-Mexico Project at the USC School of International Relations. He is a contributor to books and publications including The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Foreign Affairs LatinoAmérica, México en el Mundo, The American Prospect, and has contributed numerous essays to the op-ed and Sunday Opinion pages of The Los Angeles Times since 1983, when he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies of University of California, San Diego.

Mr. Ayón was educated at Princeton, Stanford, and El Colegio de Mexico

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José Luis Barraza

Aeroméxico, Chairman
José Luis Barraza serves as President of the Administrative Council of Grupo Aeroméxico, Proyectos Inmobiliarios Impulso, Optima, Administración de Servicios Optima, Realiza Y Asociados, and Inmobiliaria Realiza.

He has more than 29 years of experience in International Commerce, Promotion and Industrial Development. From 2003 to 2004 Mr. Barraza was national president of the Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana (COPARMEX); and from 2004 to 2007 national president of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE).

Mr. Barraza is in the Board of numerous financial, educational, and philanthropic institutions.

José Luis Barraza holds a bachelors degree in Mechanic Engineering and Administration from the Insituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Monterrey. H has a Masters in Business Administration from IPADE, and was honored with a Honoris Causa Doctorate by the Mexican Academy of International Law.

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Jon E. Blum

Citigroup Global Markets Group, Managing Director
Jon Blum is a Managing Director with Citigroup Global Markets Group.

Prior to joining Citi in 2010, he was the Managing Director of Business Development at Liberty Square Asset Management from 2005-2009. Blum joined Liberty Square after 12 years at Morgan Stanley where he was a Managing Director in International Equity Sales and Prime Brokerage groups. He established and ran the Latin American Institutional Equity Sales and Global Emerging Markets Sales businesses in the US from 1993 to 2002. Prior, as a Vice President at Credit Suisse, Mr. Blum established and managed the Latin American Equity Sales group. He was at JPMorgan as a Vice President in Latin America Corporate Finance and International Capital Markets, based in New York and Mexico City from 1986 to1982.

Mr. Blum served on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University and as the U.S. Representative to the External Review Group of the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) the private sector affiliate of the Inter American Development Bank (IADB).

Mr. Blum is a member of the Board of Directors and the Finance Chair of New Yorkers for Children since 2003.

Mr. Blum earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University where he graduated with Highest Distinction and Honors in International Relations and Economics. He earned a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.

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Henry G. Cisneros

City View, Executive Chairman
Henry G. Cisneros is currently Executive Chairman of CityView, a company that works the nation’s leading homebuilders to create homes priced within the range of average families.

Mr. Cisneros is the 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the administration of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. As HUD Secretary, he was credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation’s public housing developments and with formulating policies that contributed to achieving the nation’s highest ever homeownership rate. In his role as the President’s chief representative to the nation’s cities, Mr. Cisneros personally worked in more than 200 U.S. cities in every one of the 50 states.

Prior, Mr. Cisneros served four terms as the second Hispanic mayor of a major United States city his hometown of San Antonio, Texas. He was elected to three terms in the San Antonio city council. After public office, Mr. Cisneros served as President and COO for the Spanish-language network Univision from 1997-2000.

Throughout his career, Mr. Cisneros has remained actively involved with creating housing and development to result in urban revitalization for this country’s large cities. He is also a diligent advocate for the Latino community. He has and continues to serve on corporate boards, as well as chairing and serving on several non-profit boards to promote Latinos and the immigrant population, in addition to furthering the efforts for fair housing policy. Mr. Cisneros has authored, edited and collaborated on several books, and is an in-demand public speaker.

Mr. Cisneros received a B.A. and an M.A. in Urban Planning from Texas A&M, an M.A. in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Doctorate in Public Administration from George Washington University.

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Maria Echaveste

Nueva Vista Group, Co-Founder and Partner
After leaving the White House, Maria Echaveste she founded the Nueva Vista Group, a consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., that works with nonprofit organizations, associations and corporations on such issues as immigration, health care, telecommunications, labor and finances.

From 1998 to 2001, she served as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. In this capacity, Ms. Echaveste managed domestic policy initiatives that focused on education, civil rights, immigration and bankruptcy reform. She also developed communications, legislative and public outreach strategies. In another area, she coordinated relief efforts within the White House for foreign and domestic disasters, and specialized in international issues related to Latin America.

Ms. Echaveste held the post of director of the Office of Public Liaison at the White House from 1997 to 1998. She previously was the administrator of the labor department's Wage and Hour Division from 1993 to 1997. Under her leadership, the Department of Labor's anti-sweatshop initiative received a 1996 Innovations in Government award from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the Ford Foundation.

She is a part time lecturer at Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Ms. Echaveste received a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Stanford University and a law degree from UC Berkeley's Boalt Law School.

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Juan Alberto González Esparza

Microsoft Mexico, General Director
As general director, Juan Alberto González is responsible for the operations of Microsoft Mexico. Additionally, González manages the social responsibility initiative, where Microsoft Mexico has one of the best practices worldwide.

Before joining Microsoft Mexico, González was general director of the Andean region, including Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Before becoming general director of the Andean region, González was director at the subsidiaries in Colombia for two years, and later in Peru for another three years. Due to his great passion for social responsibility, in 2000 González founded the Microsoft Solidario program, which engages employees and their families in social responsibility efforts in Colombia. Mr. González joined Microsoft in 1994, as Sales Manager in Mexico. Before Microsoft, he worked at Novell México.

Mr. González has received several awards inside Microsoft recognizing his leadership and skills. He received the Colombian citizenship by the hand of the President Alvaro Uribe.

Juan Alberto González graduated from La Salle Univerity with a Bachelor´s degree Computer Science and Cybernetics. He also holds several diplomas in leadership and administration from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wharton University.

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Claudio X. González Guajardo

Mexicanos Primero, President
Co-founder and former president of Fundación Televisa, and patron of the Unión de Empresarios para la Tecnología en la Educación (UNETE). Additionally, he presides as president, patron and cofounder of Mexicanos Primero and member of the Technical Committee of Bécalos.

Mr. González worked in the Office of Presidency from 1994 to 2000. Previously he was coordinator of the advisors of the Planning Sub secretary of the Secretary of Agricultural and Hydraulic Resources. Before this, he worked at the Secretary of Work and Social Prevention. He is member of several Boards including Colegio de México, Papalote Museo del Niño, Fundación Comunitaria Oaxaca, Compromiso Social por la Calidad en la Educación y Fundación Carolina México-España. He has been awarded the José Vasconcelos medal for development and strengthening of education in Mexico, he James L. Fisher Award for distinguished service to education, Gran Orden de la Reforma, Max Shein medal, among others.

He holds a Bachelor degree in law by the Escuela Libre de Derecho and a PHD in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.

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Alejandro Martí

Sistema de Observación para la Seguridad Ciudadana (SOS), President
Alejandro Martí is President and founder of Mexico SOS, entity focused to the implementation of programs to build a legal system free of impunity and corruption, through all Mexican Territory, since 2008.

Chairman of the Board of Deportes Marti, leading the sporting goods retailing business all over the Mexican Republic, and Sport City, top position in the Health and Fitness market ranked as the Finest facilities in Latin America.

Member of the Board of Directors of the following companies: Administradora de Centros Comerciales Santa Fe, Centro Comercial Lindavista, Mexicana de Restaurantes, Procorp, S.A. de C.V. Ferruco Equity Partners, S.A. de C.V., Progress Investments LLC, Paga Todo, Mas Negocio, Promotora Progrupo.

Mr. Marti has received several commemoration including the Medal of Honor to the Entrepreneur Merit granted by The Chamber of Commerce of Mexico City in 1995, successful trajectory award granted by the business University of La Salle in Mexico, named as “Celebrity of the Year in 2008” by the Semanario Magazine, named for 5 years as one of the 300 Mexican leaders by the Magazine “Líderes”, ranked in the position 100 in Mexican entrepreneur list by “Expansion Magazine” among others.

Mr. Martí holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, graduated in 1972 from La Salle University, in Mexico City.

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Raúl Rodríguez Barocio- Chair of Executive Committee

North American Center for Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, Chairman of the Board of Advisors
Prof. Rodríguez-Barocio serves as Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the North American Center for Transborder Studies at Arizona State University; as Tom Benson Chair in Banking and Finance and Distinguished Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, the largest Catholic university in Texas. Founding Chairman of the North American Center at Arizona State University and of the Center for Medical Tourism Research at UIW. Past Chairman of the two main international organizations in San Antonio: the World Affairs Council and the Free Trade Alliance. Partner in an international investment and trade consulting firm. Former CEO of the North American Development Bank (NADBank); Executive Director at the Mexican Foreign Trade Bank; Mexico’s Trade Commissioner in Canada during the NAFTA negotiation; Chairman of a marketing firm in Mexico; Secretary of Economic Development for the Mexican State of Tamaulipas; assistant professor at Monterrey Tech.; and host of TV business interview programs in San Antonio. Founding member of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations and the Council of Economic Advisors of the U.S. - Mexico Border Governors Conference.

Board and advisory council member of a number of public policy institutes and business and philanthropic organizations in the U.S. and Mexico. He has published technical and business essays in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, the U.K. and the Netherlands and has participated as a speaker and lecturer in over 30 countries.

Graduate of Monterrey Tech and Harvard University.

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Arturo Sarukhan- Ex Officio

Mexican Embassy to the United States, Ambassador
In November 2006, Arturo Sarukhán received the rank of Ambassador, and in February 2007 was appointed Mexican Ambassador to the United States Career diplomat.

Prior he was Coordinator for Foreign Affairs in the Transition Team of Felipe Calderon after joining President Calderon´s campaign as Foreign Policy Advisor and International Spokesperson. In 2003 he was appointed by the President as Mexican Consul General to New York City. He resigned from this post and took a leave of absence from the Foreign Service in 2006 to join the Presidential Campaign of Felipe Calderón. Prior he served as Chief of Policy Planning at the Foreign Ministry, was posted in 1993 to the Mexican Embassy in the United States where he first served as Chief of Staff to the Ambassador, and then as head of the counternarcotics office and before he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs.

Ambassador Sarukhan is member of several organizations. He is vice-chair of the Executive Council on Diplomacy Ambassadors Advisory Board, Board member of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Advisory Board member of the Post Classical Ensemble; member of the Advisory Board of the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and ex-officio member of the Board of Directors of the US-Mexico Foundation. He is a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Kingdom of Spain, and has been awarded the insignia of Commander of the Order of the Polar Star of the Kingdom of Sweden. Ambassador Sarukhan graduated from El Colegio de México with a bachelor's degree in International Relations and received a master's degree in U.S. Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., where he studied as a Fulbright scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow.

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Blanca Treviño

Softek, President & CEO
With a career of over 20 years in Softtek, Blanca Treviño took the position of President and CEO in August 2000. Under her leadership Softtek has become the largest private IT service provider in Latin America and has been recognized by industry analysts as the only non-Indian offshore IT service provider to pose serious competition for the U.S. market.

Blanca serves a as board member for various organizations and universities, including Wal-Mart Mexico, The United States – Mexico Foundation for Science, University of Monterrey, and TecMilenio University. She is also an adviser to the Government of Nuevo Leon, her home state in Mexico. Featured as a “Rising Star” in 2007 by Fortune Magazine’s “50 most powerful women in global business” issue, Treviño was also selected as the third most influential business woman in Mexico by CNN / Expansion in 2007 and 2008.

Mrs. Treviño hols a bachelor in Computer science from ITESM.

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Luis Viada

MicroRate, Executive Vice President
Prior to his work at MicroRate, Luis Viada launched VectorShift following a long and successful career in international business spanning corporate banking, strategic planning, and operational effectiveness.

He forged his expertise in global business from sixteen years of in-country executive positions at Citibank in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. He later joined Standard & Poor’s where he established the company’s first offices in Mexico and Argentina, and went on to head the Latin American region. Mr. Viada then moved up to the McGraw-Hill executive team as head of Global Business Development. There he crafted the corporation’s global growth strategy, executing the company’s entry into China, and led major enterprise-wide programs in global sourcing and Lean-Six Sigma operational quality.

For the past six years, Mr. Viada has served on the Board of ProMujer Inc. He has also served on the boards of the Turtle Bay Music School of New York City and the Stoneleigh-Burnham School of Greenfield, MA. At McGraw-Hill he established and chaired the first Hispanic Employee Resource Group. Mr. Viada is currently on the Advisory Committee of Revolucion Latina and member of the New America Foundation and the New York District Export Council.

Luis Viada graduated from Tufts University and received a Masters degree in International Economics and Trade from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

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José H. Villarreal

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Consulting Senior Advisor
Jose H. Villarreal is a consulting senior advisor to the Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

Prior to becoming a consultant to Akin Gump, Mr. Villarreal was a longtime partner with the firm. Before that, he served as an assistant attorney general in the Public Finance Division of the Texas attorney general’s office and in 1993 served as associate director in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. Mr. Villarreal has served in senior roles in a number of presidential campaigns, including, most recently, as a senior advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. In 2000 he served as national treasurer of the Gore-Lieberman campaign and in 1992 as deputy campaign manager of the Clinton-Gore campaign.

Mr. Villarreal has long been active in civic affairs and has served on the governing boards of numerous organizations, both public and private. For many years, he served as chairman of the board of the National Council of La Raza, as vice chair of the board of the U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and the Close-Up Foundation, the nation’s leading civic education organization, and on the board of directors of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.. He currently serves on the boards of the Center for American Progress, and the New America Alliance, an organization of distinguished American Latino business leaders, PMI Group, Union Pacific and First Solar, Inc.

Mr. Villarreal has been recognized by numerous publications for his achievements and in 2001 was inducted into the prestigious Academy of Law Alumni Fellows by the Indiana University School of Law.

Mr. Villarreal received his B.A. in 1975 from Purdue University and his J.D. in 1979 from the Indiana University School of Law. He is a member of the State of Bar of Texas.

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Roger W. Wallace

Pioneer Natural Resources Company, Vice President
Roger W. Wallace currently serves as Co-Chair of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute Advisory Board, and is member of the Council of Foreign Relations and the Board of the Atlantic Council.

Previously, Mr. Wallace was President and CEO of Investamex, an investment and consulting firm he co-founded in 1993. From August of 1991 until the summer of 1993, Roger Wallace was the Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs at the United States Embassy in Mexico City. He also was Co-Chair of the U.S.-Mexico Environmental Business Committee. From 1989 to August 1991, he served as the Deputy Undersecretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Mr. Wallace has served as Chairman of the Asia Society of Texas, Vice Chairman of the American Center for International Leadership, President of the Amundsen Institute of U.S.-Mexico Studies, Trustee of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies and Chairman of the Executive Council of the Mexican Center at the University of Texas.

 

Guillermo Alvelais Fernández

Embotelladoras Arca, Board Member
Guillermo Alvelais Fernández is a Board member of Embotelladoras Arca, a Mexican-based company whose main activity consists of production, distribution and sale of soft drinks of brands owned by The Coca-Cola Company, as well as other brands owned by ARCA. The Company serves the northern region of Mexico in the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa, Baja California and Baja California Sur as well as Northern Argentina.

Mr. Avelais serves in different boards such as Axis System and Grupo Financiero Sofimex. He also serves in the board of Fundación Comunitaria de la Frontera Norte, a non-profit organization of Cd. Juarez citizens dedicated to address the critical needs of the community and elevate the quality of life of Ciudad Juárez.

Mr. Alvelais holds a Bachelor Degree in Science from Georgia Tech and a Masters in Administration from Cornell University.

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Patricia T. Meadow

VP, Regional and Community Banking Organizations and Consumer Compliance
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

With over 20 years of experience in the field of financial services, Patricia has worked in major international financial institutions in the areas of administration, finance, business development, human resources, and governance. Her broad experience includes specialization in developing best practice operating procedures and building trust and consensus among diverse constituencies.

Patricia most recently held the position of Head of Administration for the New York office of Investcorp. Prior, Patricia held management positions in corporate lending at HSBC, Chemical Bank, and Citibank. She has served as a Board member of the American Chamber of Commerce of Chile, and was a member of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Committee.

Patricia holds a Masters Degree in International Relations from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Arcadia University.

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Dr. Jaime Sepúlveda Amor

University of California, San Francisco, Executive Director, School of Global Health

Dr. Jaime Sepulveda, served as a deputy to Global Health President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He also serves as Director of Special Initiatives in the Global Health Program. Sepulveda was formerly Director of Integrated Health Solutions Development at the Gates Foundation.

Sepulveda served for more than 20 years in a variety of senior health posts in the Mexican government. He was director of the National Institutes of Health of Mexico from 2003 to 2006. He also served as director-general of Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health and dean of the National School of Public Health.

In addition to his research credentials, Sepulveda is an experienced implementer of effective health programs. As Mexico’s director-general of epidemiology and later vice minister of health, Sepulveda designed Mexico’s Universal Vaccination Program, which eliminated polio, measles, and diphtheria by more than doubling childhood immunization coverage in two years.

Sepulveda holds a medical degree from National Autonomous University of Mexico and three advanced degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

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Carlos Slim Domit

Grupo Carso & Telmex, CEO
Carlos Slim Domit is Chairman of the board of directors of Teléfonos de México, Chairman of the board of directors of Grupo Carso, Grupo Sanborns, and U.S. Commercial Corp.; Vice Chairman of the board of directors of Carso Global Telecom. Previously he was chief executive officer of Sanborn, and in 1997 he became Director General of Sears Roebuck’s Mexican affiliate.

Patron of the Asociación Mexicana Automovilística, which is part of the Condumex Group, a world leading industrial consortium of companies and associations, and a subsidiary of Grupo Carso.

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Lynn Taliento

McKinsey & Company, Partner
Lynn Taliento is a Partner in the Washington DC Office of McKinsey & Company. She is co-founder and leader of McKinsey's Social Sector Office in the Americas, and is leading the firm's work on gender issues in developing and emerging markets. Lynn has a strong focus on leading strategic planning and board governance efforts, and has done significant client work on the topic of nonprofit advocacy.

Lynn has spent her fifteen years at McKinsey working with a wide variety of nonprofit organizations, as well as helping establish innovative advocacy groups. She works extensively with global foundations, and individual philanthropists, helping shape their vision, strategy, and organizational design. In her role providing strategic planning support to the grantees of her foundation clients, Lynn has also worked with local service providers. Before McKinsey, Lynn was a Press Secretary for a U.S. Congressman.

Lynn graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies, and she earned a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where she was a Kennedy Fellow.