Speakers 2026
This year’s Forum provides a crucial space to reflect on the future of bilateral relations amid the ongoing political transition, now taking place in Mexico City for the first time.
Alicia Barcena
Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT)
Agustin Coppel
CEO, Coppel
Carlos Pascual
Senior Vice President, Head of Geopolitics and International Affairs, S&P
Caroline Freund
Dean, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
Daniel Servitje
Executive President, Grupo Bimbo
Dino Patti Djalal
Founder and Chairman of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI); Indonesia’s Ambassador to the U.S. (2010–2013)
Evan Medeiros
Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies and the Cling Family Senior Fellow in US-China Relations, Georgetown University
Federico Salas
Former Mexican Ambassador to India
Fen Hampson
Chancellor’s Professor, and Professor of International Affairs, Carleton University
Jesus Seade
Ambassador of Mexico to China
Jorge Ramos
Journalist and Writer
Joseph Torigian
Associate Professor SIS, Global Inquiry, American University
Juan Carlos Baker Pineda
CEO and Founding Partner, Ansley Consultores Internacionales
Kori Schake
Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Mary Ann Gomez Orta
President and CEO of Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute
Meredith Lilly
Nonresident Scholar at the Claudio X. Gonzalez Center for the U.S. and Mexico at the Baker Institute
Mikel Arriola
President, LigaMX
Natalia Cote-Muñoz
Co-Founder & CEO, Vantage Point Strategies and former Acting Deputy and Senior Advisor in the U.S. State Department’s Subnational Diplomacy Unit
Nathalie Rayes
Former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council
Pamela K. Starr
Professor of the Practice of Political Science, USC Dornsife
Pradeep Khosla
Chancellor
University of California San Diego
University of California San Diego
Rafael Fernández de Castro
Director, USMEX and Aaron Feldman Family Chancellor's Endowed Chair in U.S.-Mexican Studies
Ronald Johnson
United States Ambassador to Mexico
Robert Zoellick
Former U.S. Trade Representative & World Bank President
Santiago García
Chancellor Mexico City
Universidad Panamericana
Universidad Panamericana
Stephanie Valencia
Co-Founder & CEO, Equis and Former Special Assistant to President Obama and Principal Deputy Director of Public Engagement