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
Alejandra Frausto
Mexico City’s Secretary of Tourism
Ana Covarrubias
President, El Colegio de México
Ana Paula Ordorica
Journalist
Cameron MacKay
Ambassador of Canada in Mexico
Carla Bustillos
General Director, Canadian Chamber of Commerce Mexico
Carlos Pascual
Senior Vice President, Head of Geopolitics and International Affairs, S&P
Claudia Ruiz Massieu
Congresswoman
Cristina Planter Riebeling
Acting Undersecretary for North America, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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)
Dionisio Perez Jacome
VP Corporate Development & Sustainability, Volaris
Elsa Morales-Roth
Chair of the Board, International Community Foundation
Eugenio Madero
Chairman/CEO, Rassini
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
Fernanda Sainz
Marketing Director, Caliente Interactive
Javier Tello
Journalist
Jesus Seade
Ambassador of Mexico to China
Jorge Goytortua
CEO, Cross Border Xpress
Jorge Ramos
Journalist and Writer
Joaquín Escoto
Former EVP San Diego FC
Joaquin Luken
Executive Director, Smart Border Coalition
Jose Antonio Meade Kuribreña
USMEX Board Member
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)
Luis Guillermo Solis
Former President of Costa Rica
Luis Rosendo Gutierrez
Undersecretary for Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economy
Luz Elena Gonzalez Escobar
Secretary, Mexico’s Ministry of Energy
Mariana Cordera
USMEX Board Member & Partner, Publika
Mark Coolidge Johnson
Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Mexico
Mary Ann Gomez Orta
President and CEO of Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute
Mauricio del Valle
CEO and Board Member, Saavi Energia
Meredith Lilly
Nonresident Scholar at the Claudio X. Gonzalez Center for the U.S. and Mexico at the Baker Institute
Mikel Arriola
Commissioner President, FMF
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
Pierre Alarie
Former Canadian Ambassador to Mexico
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
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
Tania Ortiz Mena
President, Sempra Infrastructure
Thomas A. Shannon Jr.
Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs