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page 1Members of the Inter-American Dialogue

Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He lived longer than any other president in US history, reaching age 100.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer (1936–2025)
Michelle Bachelet
president of Chile from (2006–2010; 2014–2018)
Juan Manuel Santos
former president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018

Sebastián Piñera
Chilean entrepreneur and politician (1949–2024)
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
Óscar Arias Sánchez
President of Costa Rica (1986–1990, 2006–2010)
Laura Chinchilla
46th President of Costa Rica
Mia Mottley
prime minister of Barbados since 2018
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
President of Brazil from 1995 to 2003
Violeta Chamorro
President of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997 (1929–2025)
Marina Silva
Brazilian environmentalist and politician (born 1958)
Ernesto Zedillo
61st President of Mexico
Ricardo Lagos
Chilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006
Luis Guillermo Solís
Costa Rican 47th president
Leonel Fernández
former president of the Dominican Republic

Carlos Mesa
Vice President of Bolivia from 2002 to 2003 and President of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005

Joe Clark
16th Prime Minister of Canada

Julio María Sanguinetti
35th and 37th President of Uruguay
Martín Torrijos
President of Panama

Robert Zoellick
11th President of the World Bank Group

Bill Richardson
Governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011

Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
President of Bolivia
Stanley Fischer
Israeli-American economist
Christiana Figueres
Costa Rican diplomat engaged in UN

Julián Castro
16th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 181st Mayor of San Antonio

Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra is an American attorney and politician who served as the 25th United States secretary of health and human services under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Becerra previously served as the 33rd attorney general of California from 2017 to 2021 and as a U.S. representative from California from 1993 to 2017.

Jorge Quiroga
President of Bolivia from 2001 to 2002

Brent Scowcroft
9th & 17th United States National Security Advisor (1925-2020)
Eric Garcetti
American politician and diplomat (born 1971)
Theodore Edgar McCarrick
American cardinal (1930–2025)
Osvaldo Hurtado
President of Ecuador (1981-1984)
Claudia López Hernández
Colombian politician
Valeria Luiselli
Mexican writer
Trinidad Jiménez
Spanish politician and diplomat
Donna Shalala
18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Marta Lucía Ramírez
Colombian politician
Carla Anderson Hills
American lawyer and Secretary of Housing
James Stavridis
US Navy admiral
Irwin M. Jacobs
American electrical engineer and philanthropist
Bob Graham
American lawyer, author, and politician (1936–2024)
Lourdes Flores Nano
Peruvian politician
Sergio Fajardo
Colombian politician and mathematician
José Ángel Gurría
Mexican economist and diplomat

Nicolás Ardito Barletta Vallarino
President of Panama
Thomas A. Shannon, Jr.
American diplomat (born 1958)
Epsy Campbell Barr
Costa Rican politician
Julieta Castellanos
Honduran sociologist
Francis Rooney
American politician and diplomat (born 1953)

Lee H. Hamilton
politician
Julissa Reynoso
United States ambassador

Enrique V. Iglesias
President of the Inter-American Development Bank
Susana Malcorra
Argentine UN official
Moisés Naím
Venezuelan journalist
Beatriz Paredes Rangel
Governor of Tlaxcala, Mexico, and chairwoman of the PRI
Alicia Bárcena Ibarra
Mexican diplomat

John Porter
American politician in Illinois (1935-2022)
Richard N. Haass
American diplomat
Rebeca Grynspan
Costa Rican politician